Substance abuse studies and prevention efforts among Arabs in the 1990s in Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority - A literature review

Addiction

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 177-198

  Weiss, Shoshana ^a   Sawa, Ghazi H ^b   Abdeen, Ziad ^c   Yanai, Joseph ^d  

^a Israel Soc Prev of Alcoholism   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^c AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^d HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARAB; CHRISTIAN; DRUG ABUSE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; ISRAEL; JEW; JORDAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOSLEM; PALESTINE; REVIEW;

EID: 0032930981     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1360-0443.1999.9421772.x     Document Type: Review

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