THE SPRINGER SERIES ON

DEMOGRAPHIC METHODS
AND POPULATION
ANALYSIS

 

Series Editor

KENNETH C. LAND

Duke University

In recent decades, there has been a rapid development of demographic models and methods and an explosive growth in the range of applications of population analysis. This series was established in 1986 with Plenum Publishing Corporation. Plenum later was acquired by Kluwer Academic Publishers, which subsequently became part of Springer, Inc. The series seeks to provide a publication outlet both for high-quality textual and expository books on modern techniques of demographic analysis and for works that present exemplary applications of such techniques to various aspects of population analysis.

Topics appropriate for the series include:

Volumes in the series are of interest to researchers, professionals, and students in demography, sociology, economics, statistics, geography and regional science, public health and health care management, epidemiology, biostatistics, actuarial science, business, and related fields.

Ideas and proposals for additional contributions to the series should be sent either to

Kenneth C. Land, Series Editor

Department of Sociology
and Center for Population Health and Aging, Duke Population Research Institute

Duke University

Durham, NC 27708-0088, USA

E-mail: kland@soc.duke.edu

or to:

Evelien Bakker, Associate Publishing Editor
Springer
Van Godewijckstraat 30
P.O. Box 17
3300 AA Dordrecht
The Netherlands
E-mail:  evelien.bakker@springer.com

 

 

Titles Published in the Series (See also www.springer.com)

 

William A. Kandel and David L. Brown (Eds.)
Hardbound, ISBN 1-4020-3911-5; Pb, 1-4020-3901-8, January 2006

Rural people and communities continue to play a critical role in 21st century American society.  The 56 million rural residents counted in the 2000 Census exceed the total population of all but 22 of the world’s 200-plus nation-states.  This book uses a comprehensive perspective to examine dynamic relationships between contemporary population change and rural society along four dimensions: rural society as a cultural and demographic entity; rural economic life and its continued restructuring; rural territory as a contested natural environment; and rural society as a repository of poverty and economic privilege.

This book is a revision of Pol and Thomas (1992; see below), which is out of print. It is written for an audience of health care practitioners, academic and private sector demographers, and students in demography and health care administration who wish to know more about how and why demographic conditions (and changes in those conditions) affect the supply and demand for health care, and, conversely, how and why changing health care conditions affect demographic structure. It makes use of data from a variety of sources, utilizing the results from previous research, models, theories, and case studies to demonstrate the health care-demography connection from both a theoretical and an applied perspective. At the theoretical level, it conveys the general principles and measurement concerns that serve as the basis of health demography. At the applied level, it demonstrates how the merging of demography and health care has a positive impact on the planning processes of hospitals, physicians, physicians' groups, emergency clinics, nursing homes, and other health care providers.