Prevention in public health engineering...9th World Conference of the International Society for Gerontechnology (ISG), June 18-21, 2014, Taipei, Taiwan.
Purpose Public health is concerned with supportive environments for healthy living and as such is directly coupled to prevention. Given the gradual demographic development and fast technology innovation of our era, can we understand present dilemmas on the basis of past successes and provide guidanc...
| Published in: | Gerontechnology Vol. 13; no. 2; pp. 64 - 65 |
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2014 Special Issue
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