The role of general practitioners' working style and brief alcohol intervention activity

Addiction

Volumn 98, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1447-1451

  Aalto, Mauri ^a,c   Värre, Tanja ^b   Pekuri, Petteri ^a   Seppä, Kaija ^a,b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c Harjavalta Hospital   (Finland)

Author keywords

Alcohol drinking; Prevention counselling; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; WORK CAPACITY;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COUNSELING; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY;

EID: 0142061663     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1360-0443.2003.00487.x     Document Type: Article

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