Estimating alcohol-attributable mortality among Indigenous Australians: Towards Indigenous-specific alcohol aetiologic fractions

Drug and Alcohol Review

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 196-200

  Pascal, Richard ^a   Chikritzhs, Tanya ^a   Gray, Dennis ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aetiologic fraction; Alcohol; Epidemiology; Indigenous Australian; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; AUSTRALIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 67650676035     PISSN: 09595236     EISSN: 14653362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-3362.2008.00044.x     Document Type: Article

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