The healthy longevity survey and the active life expectancy of the oldest old in China

Population

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages

  Zeng, Yi ^a,b,c   Vaupel, James W ^a,c   Xiao, Zhenyu ^d   Zhang, Chunyuan ^b   Liu, Yuzhi ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d China National Research Center on Aging   (China)

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EID: 0003134571     PISSN: 16342941     EISSN: 19589190     Source Type: Journal    
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