Alcohol consumption and fatal accidents in Canada, 1950-98

Addiction

Volumn 98, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 883-893

  Skog, Ole Jørgen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Alcohol consumption; Fatal accidents; Mortality; Time series analysis; Traffic accidents; Violent deaths

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ACCIDENT; AGE; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANADA; DROWNING; FALLING; FATALITY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CANADA; DROWNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS;

EID: 0037715149     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1360-0443.2003.00390.x     Document Type: Article

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