Volume 36 - Article 19 | Pages 589–608  

Adult mortality patterns in the former Soviet Union’s southern tier: Armenia and Georgia in comparative perspective

By Géraldine Duthé, Michel Guillot, France Meslé, Jacques Vallin, Irina Badurashvili, Mikhail Denisenko, Natalia Gavrilova, Karine Kuyumjyan, Liudmila Torgasheva

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