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Trends in healthy life expectancy among older adults in South Africa

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Views expressed in the study are solely those of the authors and do not reflect those of the South African Medical Research
Council, Nihon University, the United Nations, Human Sciences Research Council of Pretoria (South Africa), and the
University of Pretoria.

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None.
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