Volume 22 - Article 23 | Pages 691–732  

Mortality in the Caucasus: An attempt to re-estimate recent mortality trends in Armenia and Georgia

By Géraldine Duthé, Irina Badurashvili, Karine Kuyumjyan, France Meslé, Jacques Vallin

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