Portrait of health in the United States / editors, Daniel Melnick, Beatrice Rouse.

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Presents a picture of American health using a variety of measures ranging from self-perceived health status and reported acute and chronic health conditions to more objective measures such as life expectancy, medical diagnosis, hospitalization statistics, and death rates.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Melnick, Daniel, Rouse, Beatrice A.
Language:English
Published: Lanham, MD : Bernan, 2001.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Medical statistics > Periodicals.
Health status indicators > United States > Periodicals.
Medical care > United States > Statistics > Periodicals.
Vital Statistics.
Mortality.
Health Status Indicators.
Delivery of Health Care.
United States.
Statistics.
United States > Statistics, Medical > Periodicals.
Electronic books.
Genre:
Periodicals.
Statistics
Statistics, Medical
Statistics.
Electronic books.
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Physical Description:xxi, 376 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • ch. 1. Why we need health statistics
  • ch. 2. Correlates
  • ch. 3. Conditions : indicators of wellness and disease
  • ch. 4. Care
  • ch. 5. Consequences : the effects of health on people and the society
  • ch. 6. How to find more health statistics.