Age and poverty as risk factors.
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Age and poverty as risk factors.
A large part of the world's population has gained only marginal benefits from the overall improvement in prevention and therapy of diseases. In 1900, 25% of deaths occurred in people 65 years and older, whereas in 1980 this percentage was about 70% (1). From the point of view of economists, it is around age 50 that a balance point is reached where the benefits of a few more productive years are...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0091-6765,1552-9924
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.94102620