Research into health, population and social transitions in rural South Africa: data and methods of the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System.

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Published in Scand J Public Health Suppl on August 01, 2007

Authors

Kathleen Kahn1, Stephen M Tollman, Mark A Collinson, Samuel J Clark, Rhian Twine, Benjamin D Clark, Mildred Shabangu, Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Obed Mokoena, Michel L Garenne

Author Affiliations

1: MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. Kathleen.Kahn@wits.ac.za

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