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Housing Assessment Tools Developed or Adapted for Use in East and Southeast Asia: A Scoping Review

Rumiko Tsuchiya-Itoa Research Department, Institute for Health Economics and Policy, Tokyo, Japan;b Dia Foundation for Research on Ageing Societies, Tokyo, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Miki Tajimab Dia Foundation for Research on Ageing Societies, Tokyo, Japan
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Björn Slaugc Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, SwedenORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7386-2224
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Pages 225-248 | Published online: 15 Oct 2020

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