Alcohol and health: Individual and population perspectives

Addiction

Volumn 92, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1997, Pages

  Rehm, Jürgen ^a,b   Ashley, Mary Jane ^b   Dubois, Gérard ^c  

^a CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c AMIENS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POLICY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RISK;

EID: 0030890479     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1997.tb03404.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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