Capturing how age-friendly communities foster positive health, social participation and health equity: a study protocol of key components and processes that promote population health in aging Canadians

• Main Authors: Mélanie Levasseur (Author), Marie-France Dubois (Author), Mélissa Généreux (Author), Verena Menec (Author), Parminder Raina (Author), Mathieu Roy (Author), Catherine Gabaude (Author), Yves Couturier (Author), Catherine St-Pierre (Author)
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• Udgivet: BMC, 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background To address the challenges of the global aging population, the World Health Organization promoted age-friendly communities as a way to foster the development of active aging community initiatives. Accordingly, key components (i.e., policies, services and structures related to the...