The Demography of Health and Healthcare Third Edition /

In this 3rd edition of the definitive work on health demography, Pol and Thomas offer an updated view of the field and a current perspective on the applications of health demography to contemporary issues.� The significance of health demography within the field of population studies has continued to...

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Main Authors: Pol, Louis G. (Author), Thomas, Richard K. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edition:3rd ed. 2013.
Series:The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, 13
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8903-8
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