Is alcohol consumption good for you? Results from the 2005 Canadian Community Health Survey

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 553-563

  McIntosh, James ^a,b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b VIVE THE DANISH CENTER FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Alcohol use; Diabetes; Heart disease; Mixture distributions; Self rated health; Unobserved heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 55849140110     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16066350802011631     Document Type: Article

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