Social conditions and disability related to the mortality of older people in rural South Africa
Author(s) -
F. Xavier GómezOlivé,
Margaret Thorogood,
Philippe Bocquier,
Paul Mee,
Kathleen Kahn,
Lisa Berkman,
Stephen Tollman
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyu093
Subject(s) - medicine , demography , confidence interval , hazard ratio , population , gerontology , proportional hazards model , mortality rate , public health , quality of life (healthcare) , rural area , environmental health , surgery , nursing , pathology , sociology
South Africa is experiencing a health and social transition including an ageing population and an HIV epidemic. We report mortality experience of an older rural South African population.
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