The scope of costs in alcohol studies: Cost-of-illness studies differ from economic evaluations

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  van Gils, Paul F ^a   Hamberg van Reenen, Heleen H ^a   van den Berg, Matthijs ^a   Tariq, Luqman ^a   de Wit, G Ardine ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL ABUSE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; CRIME; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL STRESS; POLICY; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIETY; VIOLENCE; WORK EXPERIENCE;

EID: 77954180567     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7547-8-15     Document Type: Review

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