منابع مشابه
Health Economics and Aging
Objectives: In this paper, aging with its different dimensions is discussed. The characteristics of elderly's life in relation to individual, social, and changes meet aging together with attitudes toward it and major components of elderly are explained. Disease and burden of disease of aging as a central to the areas of Health and Health Economics will be emphasized. The influential factors on ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: North Carolina Medical Journal
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0029-2559,0029-2559
DOI: 10.18043/ncm.69.5.379