Global burden of disease and injury and economic cost attributable to alcohol use and alcohol-use disorders

The Lancet

Volumn 373, Issue 9682, 2009, Pages 2223-2233

  Rehm, Jürgen ^a,b,c,d   Mathers, Colin ^e   Popova, Svetlana ^a,b   Thavorncharoensap, Montarat ^f,g   Teerawattananon, Yot ^f   Patra, Jayadeep ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Head WHO Collaboration Centre for Substance Abuse   (Switzerland)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^f MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Thailand)

^g MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECONOMICS; EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INCOME; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIETY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 67649116613     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60746-7     Document Type: Review

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