Health demography has played an increasingly important role during the past 20 years; the number of health professionals who utilize its methods and materials has grown exponentially. Describes the general principles that underlie this applied subdiscipline and demonstrates how the merging of demography and health care impacts on the planning processes of a range of health care organizations. Part of the eBooks on EBSCOhost collection provided by UT Southwestern, the UT System Libraries, and TexShare.