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BMC Public Health BioMed Central Research article Open Access The epidemiology of dependency among urban-dwelling older people in the Dominican Republic; a cross-sectional survey 1 2 3 4 Daisy Acosta* , Ruth Rottbeck , Guillermina Rodríguez , Cleusa P Ferri and Martin J Prince4 Address: 1Internal Medicine Department, Geriatric Section, Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Ureña (UNPHU), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Freie Universität and Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany, 3Dirección General de Salud Pública. Ministerio de Protección Social (6th District), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and 4Section of Epidemiology, Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, London, UK Email: Daisy Acosta* - daisyacosta@.do; Ruth Rottbeck - ruth.rottbeck@; Guillermina Rodríguez - daisyacosta@.do; Cleusa P Ferri - cleusa.ferri@iop.kcl.ac.uk; Martin J Prince - m.prince@iop.kcl.ac.uk * Corresponding author Published: 13 August 2008 Received: 25 February 2008 Accepted: 13 August 2008 BMC Public Health 2008, 8:285 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-285 This article is available from: /1471-2458/8/285 © 2008 Acosta et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.