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Aging, health, and public policy : demographic and economic perspectives
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- Creator
- Linda J. Waite, editor
- Included Title
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- Population and development review ; vol. 30, 2004 (Supplement)
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Population Council, 2004
- Physical Details
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- vii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780878341122, 0878341129
- OCLC
- ocm56924742
- "Population and development review, a supplement to volume 30, 2004."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Introduction -- The Demographic faces of the elderly / Linda J. Waite -- I. History, biology, and deisease -- Challenges in the process of aging during the twentieth century : findings and procedures of the 'Early indicators' project / Robert William Fogel -- Biodemography of aging / James W. Vaupel -- From Alzheimer's to a demography of chronic disease : the development of demographic synthesis for fitting multistate models / Douglas Ewbank -- II. Health and socioeconomic status -- Integrating biology into the study of health disparities / Eileen M. Crimmins Teresa E. Seeman -- Unraveling the SES-health connection / James P. Smith -- Socioeconomic status and coronary heart disease : a psychbiological perspective / Andrew Stepoe Michael Marmot -- III. Aging, work, and public policy -- Quantifying our ignorance : stochastic forecasts of population and public budgets / Ronald Lee -- Social Security provisions and the labor force participation of older workers / David A. Wise -- IV. Data and statistics -- Survey design and methology in the Health and Retirement Study and the Wisconsin Longitudial Study / Robert M. Hauser Robert J. Willis -- Epilogue -- Research on pupulation aging at NIA : retrospect and propects / Richard Suzman