The disadvantage of being advantaged? - On a social gradient in excess mortality among alcohol abusers

Addiction

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1821-1829

  Rossow, Ingeborg ^a   Amundsen, Arvid ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR ALCOHOL AND DRUG RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NORWAY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL CLASS;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; CAUSE OF DEATH; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NORWAY; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030467533     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1996.tb03811.x     Document Type: Article

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