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The Demography of Health and Health Care (The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis)
β Scribed by Richard K. Thomas
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 389
- Edition
- 2nd
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This is 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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