Social network properties and self-rated health in later life: comparisons from the Korean social life, health, and aging project and the national social life, health and aging project.

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Published in BMC Geriatr on September 14, 2014

Authors

Yoosik Youm1, Edward O Laumann, Kenneth F Ferraro, Linda J Waite, Hyeon Chang Kim, Yeong-Ran Park, Sang Hui Chu, Won-Tak Joo, Jin A Lee

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Sociology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. yoosik@yonsei.ac.kr.

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