Addressing health challenges of ageing in sub-Saharan Africa: Policy perspectives and evidence needs

Global Ageing in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges, Opportunities and Implications

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 121-138

  Aboderin, Isabella ^a,b  

^a AFRICAN POPULATION AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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