Deconstructing anti-harm-reduction metaphors; mortality risk from falls and other traumatic injuries compared to smokeless tobacco use

Harm Reduction Journal

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Phillips, Carl V ^a   Guenzel, Brian ^b   Bergen, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Health and Policy Sciences Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; FALLING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BELIEF; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE;

EID: 33745065491     PISSN: 14777517     EISSN: 14777517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7517-3-15     Document Type: Article

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