Income inequality and alcohol attributable harm in Australia

BMC Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Dietze, Paul M ^a,b   Jolley, Damien J ^a   Chikritzhs, Tanya N ^c   Clemens, Susan ^d   Catalano, Paul ^c   Stockwell, Tim ^c,e  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MACFARLANE BURNET INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (Australia)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCOME; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; URBAN POPULATION; VICTORIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62849104066     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-70     Document Type: Article

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