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Improving health and living conditions for elderly populations

Self-reported health and health care use in an ageing population in the Agincourt sub-district of rural South Africa

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Article: 19305 | Received 08 Aug 2012, Accepted 18 Oct 2012, Published online: 24 Jan 2013

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