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The amazing strides in medicine and social facilities during the last century, manifested in better health care facilities, hygiene, vaccination, the introduction of antibiotics etc., have had the effect of doubling life expectancy at birth in the industrialized countries. 1)
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© 1987 Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema bv, Utrecht
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Hollander, C.F., Becker, H.A. (1987). Medical and medical-technological developments. In: Hollander, C.F., Becker, H.A. (eds) Growing Old in the Future. Scenario-report, commissioned by the Steering Committee on Future Health Scenarios. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3309-5_4
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