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With this book, Siegel, an internationally known demographer and gerontologist, has made a unique contribution to the fledgling fields of health demography, and the demography and epidemiology of aging. The book represents a felicitous union of epidemiology, gerontology, and demography, and appears to be  the first and only comprehensive text on this subject now available. Drawing on a wide range of sciences in addition to demography, gerontology, and epidemiology, including medical sociology, biostatistics, public policy, bioethics, and molecular biology, the author treats theoretical and applied issues, links methods and findings, covers the material internationally, nationally, and locally, and while focusing on the elderly, treats the entire life course. The methods, materials, and perspectives of demography and epidemiology are brought to bear on such topics as the prospects for future increases in human longevity, the relative contribution of life style, environment, genetics, and chance in human longevity, the measurement of the share of  healthy years in total life expectancy, the role of population growth in the rising costs of health care, and the applications of health demography in serving the health needs of local communities. The separate chapters systematically develop the topics of the sources and quality of health data; mortality, life tables, and the measurement of health status; the  interrelationships of health, on the one hand, and mortality, fertility, migration, and age structure, on the other; health conditions in the less developed countries; the concepts and theories of aging and projections of the aged population; and local health applications, public health policy, and bioethical issues in health demography. Given its comprehensiveness, clarity, interdisciplinary scope, and authenticity, this book appeals to a wide range of users, from students and teachers of medical sociology, the demography of aging, and public health studies to practitioners in these areas, both as a text in health demography and the demography/epidemiology of aging, and as a reference work in these fields.

Age distribution (Demography). --- Epidemiology. --- Older people -- Health and hygiene. --- Population aging. --- Population aging --- Age distribution (Demography) --- Epidemiology --- Older people --- Demography --- Adult --- Physiological Phenomena --- Aging --- Epidemiologic Factors --- Phenomena and Processes --- Epidemiologic Measurements --- Social Sciences --- Quality of Health Care --- Public Health --- Population Characteristics --- Age Groups --- Growth and Development --- Physiological Processes --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Persons --- Environment and Public Health --- Health Care --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Named Groups --- Longevity --- Population Dynamics --- Age Factors --- Aged --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Business & Economics --- Gerontology --- Health and hygiene --- Demography. --- Health. --- Personal health --- Wellness --- Historical demography --- Aging of population --- Aging population --- Aging society --- Demographic aging --- Graying (Demography) --- Greying (Demography) --- Distribution, Age (Demography) --- Social sciences. --- Public health. --- Geriatrics. --- Aging. --- Social Sciences. --- Public Health. --- Geriatrics/Gerontology. --- Social sciences --- Population --- Vital statistics --- Medicine --- Physiology --- Diseases --- Holistic medicine --- Hygiene --- Well-being --- Age --- Age groups --- Research. --- Ageing --- Senescence --- Developmental biology --- Age factors in disease --- Public health --- Physiological effect --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation