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Garcia-Alexander, G., Woo, H., Carlson, M.J. (2017). Demographic Structure and Processes. In: Social Foundations of Behavior for the Health Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64950-4_8

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