Public Health
Volume 123, Issue 4 , Pages 326-330 , April 2009

Ageing of a rural Ethiopian population: who are the survivors?

  • M. Fantahun

      Affiliations

    • School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, PO Box 24762, Code 1000, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    • Umeå International School of Public Health, Epidemiology and Public Health Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +251 1 157701.
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  • Y. Berhane

      Affiliations

    • School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, PO Box 24762, Code 1000, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    • Umeå International School of Public Health, Epidemiology and Public Health Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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  • U. Högberg

      Affiliations

    • Umeå International School of Public Health, Epidemiology and Public Health Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
    • ,
  • S. Wall

      Affiliations

    • Umeå International School of Public Health, Epidemiology and Public Health Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
    • ,
  • P. Byass

      Affiliations

    • Umeå International School of Public Health, Epidemiology and Public Health Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Received 1 April 2008 ,Revised 4 September 2008 ,Accepted 22 October 2008.

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PII: S0033-3506(08)00309-0

doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2008.10.019

Public Health
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