The impact of the Northern Territory's living with alcohol program, 1992-2002: Revisiting the evaluation

Addiction

Volumn 100, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1625-1636

  Chikritzhs, Tanya ^a,c   Stockwell, Tim ^b   Pascal, Richard ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alcohol policy; Alcohol taxation; Alcohol attributable mortality; Australia; Indigenous; Time series

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; EVALUATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; MORTALITY; TAX;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; MORTALITY; NORTHERN TERRITORY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC POLICY; TAXES;

EID: 27744492115     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2005.01234.x     Document Type: Article

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