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Neighbourhood social and built environment factors and falls in community-dwelling canadian older adults: A validation study and exploration of structural confounding

Older persons are vulnerable to the ill effects of their social and built environment due to age-related limitations in mobility and bio-psychological vulnerability. Falls are common in older adults and result from complex interactions between individual, social, and contextual determinants. We addr...

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Autores principales: Vafaei, Afshin, Pickett, William, Zunzunegui, Maria Victoria, Alvarado, Beatriz E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5757896/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29349162
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2016.06.003