The Demography of Health and Health Care or Rethinking Bank Regulation

The Demography of Health and Health Care: Evolution and Innovation

Author: Louis G Pol

"Health demography" has come to play an increasingly important role within the larger field during the past twenty years; the number of health professionals who utilize its methods and materials has grown exponentially. In a thoroughgoing revision of the first edition of this classic text and reference, published by Plenum in 1992, the authors convey the general principles that underlie this applied subdiscipline and demonstrate how the merging of demography and health care impacts on the planning processes of a range of health care organizations.

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As the increasing power of computers allows for the processing of ever-larger collections of data, new cross-disciplinary studies are developing; one of these bridges the gap between health care and demographic studies. In this volume, the authors use data from a variety of sources, models, theories and case studies to demonstrate the uses of the health care-demography fusion from both theoretical and applied perspectives. Written for health care practitioners, academic and private sector demographers, and students in demography or health care, Pol (U. of Nebraska) and Thomas (Medical Research Group) discuss the emerging field of study, and aim to further refine its scope, demonstrate its relevance and illustrate its application. After an overview of the US medical system, they converse on what they feel are relevant topics to health care demographics including population size, fertility, and the process of morality. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

1	Health Demography: An Evolving Discipline	1
2	Health and Health Care: An Introduction	19
3	The Language of Health Care	59
4	Population Size, Concentration, and Distribution	87
5	Population Composition	115
6	Fertility	145
7	Morbidity and Mortality	177
8	Migration	215
9	Data Sources for Health Demography	243
10	The Demographic Correlates of Health Status	281
11	The Demographic Correlates of Health Behavior and Health Services Utilization	319
12	The Future of Health Demography	357
	Index	369

See also: Communicating with the Ethnic Consumer or Leadership Games

Rethinking Bank Regulation: Till Angels Govern

Author: James R Barth

This volume assembles and presents a new database on bank regulation in over 150 countries (included also on CD). It offers the first comprehensive cross-country assessment of the impact of bank regulation on the operation of banks, and assesses the validity of the Basel Committee's influential approach to bank regulation. The treatment also provides an empirical evaluation of the historic debate about the proper role of government in the economy by studying bank regulation and analyzes the role of politics in determining regulatory approaches to banking. The data also indicate that restrictions on the entry of new banks, government ownership of banks, and restrictions on bank activities hurt banking system performance. The authors find that domestic political factors shape both regulations and their effectiveness.