The ethnic density effect on alcohol use among ethnic minority people in the UK

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 20-25

  Bécares, Laia ^a   Nazroo, James ^b   Stafford, Mai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DRINKING; ETHNICITY; LOGISTICS; MINORITY GROUP; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL POLICY;

ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIA; ASIAN; CENTRAL AMERICA; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; NEGRO; POPULATION DENSITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

AFRICA; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ASIA; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CARIBBEAN REGION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; POPULATION DENSITY; PREJUDICE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 78650858391     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2009.087114     Document Type: Article

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