What can public health surveillance of emergency department presentations for acute alcohol problems tell us about social trends in drinking behaviour?

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 191, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 237-238

  Muscatello, David J ^c   Thackway, Sarah V ^a,c   Belshaw, Daniel A ^c   McGrath, David ^b,c  

^a CENTRE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Office   (Australia)

^c NSW Department of Health   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ALCOHOLISM; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LETTER; MORBIDITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; ALCOHOLISM; CHILD; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349560289     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02768.x     Document Type: Letter

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