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Patterns of daily activity and time spent in bed of adult women and adolescent and preadolescent girls from a rural community in Senegal, West Africa

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Pages 454-469 | Received 16 Nov 2006, Accepted 02 Apr 2007, Published online: 09 Jul 2009

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