Alcohol-related disorders in first- and second- generation immigrants in Sweden: A national cohort study

Addiction

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 229-236

  Hjern, Anders ^a,b   Allebeck, Peter ^c  

^a CENTRE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c Department of Social Medicine ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Addiction; Alcohol; Ethnicity; Migration; Socio economic

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; EUROPE; FEMALE; FINLAND; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SWEDEN;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 1342322729     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1360-0443.2003.00562.x     Document Type: Article

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