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    Ichiro Kawachi (Professor of Social Epidemiology and Director of the Center for Society and Health) & S. V. Subramanian (Assistant Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health)

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Kawachi, I., Subramanian, S.V. (2005). Health Demography. In: Poston, D.L., Micklin, M. (eds) Handbook of Population. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23106-4_27

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