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Better way to measure ageing in Oceania that takes life expectancy into account

Stuart Gietel-Basten1, Sergei Scherbov2,3

  • 1Division of Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR.

Australasian Journal on Ageing
|June 29, 2019
PubMed
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Keywords:
demographygeriatricslife expectancylongevitypolicy

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