The sociodemographic patterning of drinking and binge drinking in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland, 1994-2002

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Helasoja, Ville ^a   Lahelma, Eero ^b   Prättälä, Ritva ^a   Petkeviciene, Janina ^c   Pudule, Iveta ^d   Tekkel, Mare ^e  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

^d Health Promotion Centre   (Latvia)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH DEVELOPMENT   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION; ESTONIA; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LATVIA; LITHUANIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SOCIOLOGY; URBAN POPULATION; AGE; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ESTONIA; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LATVIA; LITHUANIA; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 35748948023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-241     Document Type: Article

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