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In including the names of two academic disciplines in the title of this book, demography and epidemiology, I have admittedly carved out a rather broad area for treatment, but hybrid and joint disciplines are common in science today. I am calling this hybrid health demography. Health demography has emerged as a subdiscipline of demography in recent decades and it essentially applies the materials, methods, and perspectives of demography to the study of health. At the same time, a subdiscipline of epidemiology has emerged labeled population epidemiology that essentially applies the materials, methods, and perspectives of epidemiology to the study of population. These two subdisciplines overlap to a large extent, and any distinctions mainly reflect the differences in the academic training of the analysts. With its focus on health demography, this book deals with the intersection of these subfields of demography and epidemiology.

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Siegel, J.S. (2012). Introduction. In: The Demography and Epidemiology of Human Health and Aging. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1315-4_1

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