Social conditions and disability related to the mortality of older people in rural South Africa.

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Published in Int J Epidemiol on October 01, 2014

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F Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Margaret Thorogood, Philippe Bocquier, Paul Mee, Kathleen Kahn, Lisa Berkman, Stephen Tollman

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