Falls among the elderly—Human and environmental factors☆

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• Publication year

  1978

• Venue

  Accident Analysis & Prevention

• Publication date

  1978-03-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/0001-4575(78)90005-2
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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