Published August, 2012
By Richard K. Thomas and Louis G. Pol
Publisher: Springer
Series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
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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.

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Published November, 2010
By Antonella Pinnelli, Filomena Racioppi and Rosella Rettaroli
Publisher: Springer
Series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
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Here is a comprehensive and hugely important treatment of the topic of gender and demographic behaviour. It reports new findings of empirical research, mostly based on data from a number of European countries, making good use of Family and Fertility surveys and other international databases.

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Published October, 2010
By Rasmus Hoffmann
Publisher: Springer
Series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
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Social differences in health and mortality constitute a persistent finding in epidemiological, demographic, and sociological research.

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Published October, 2010
By Samuel H. Preston, Irma T. Elo, Mark E. Hill, Ira Rosenwaike, S.H. Preston and I.T. Elo
Publisher: Springer
Series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
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The authors of this work use a novel strategy that combines record linkage and demographic/statistical analysis to produce an internally consistent and robust set of estimates of the African-American population during the period 1930-1990. They interpret the record that emerges, with special reference to longevity trends and differentials.

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Published October, 2010
By Dudley L. Poston, Joseph Tucker, Qiang Ren, Baochang Gu, Xiaoying Zheng, Stephanie Wang, Chris Russell and Dudley L. Poston, Jr.
Publisher: Springer
Series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
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China's concentrated HIV epidemic is on the brink of becoming a generalized one and syphilis infection has become a major public health threat. A better understanding of the proximate social determinants of HIV related to gender will be crucial to effectively curbing HIV and other STIs in China.

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Published May, 2009
By Dudley L. Poston, Joseph Tucker, Qiang Ren, Baochang Gu, Xiaoying Zheng, Stephanie Wang, Chris Russell and Dudley L. Poston, Jr.
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
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China's concentrated HIV epidemic is on the brink of becoming a generalized one and syphilis infection has become a major public health threat. A better understanding of the proximate social determinants of HIV related to gender will be crucial to effectively curbing HIV and other STIs in China.

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Published January, 2009
By Yi Zeng, Danan Gu, Dudley L. Poston, Denese Ashbaugh Vlosky and Dudley L. Poston, Jr.
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
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Key research in the world's largest aging population - in China - has fed into this important new work, which aims to answer questions critical to older people worldwide. These include: is the period of disability compressing or expanding with increasing life expectancy and what factors are associated with these trends in the recent decades?

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