Estimating chronic disease deaths and hospitalizations due to alcohol use in Canada in 2002: Implications for policy and prevention strategies

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Rehm, Jürgen ^a,b,c,d   Giesbrecht, Norman ^a   Patra, Jayadeep ^a   Roerecke, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Institut fur Sucht und Gesundheitsforschung Zurich   (Switzerland)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CANADA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; META-ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33947262663     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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