Impact on alcohol-related mortality of a rapid rise in the density of private liquor outlets in British Columbia: A local area multi-level analysis

Addiction

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 768-776

  Stockwell, Tim ^a,b   Zhao, Jinhui ^a,d   Macdonald, Scott ^a,b   Vallance, Kate ^a   Gruenewald, Paul ^c   Ponicki, William ^c   Holder, Harold ^c   Treno, Andrew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EVALUATION   (United States)

^d MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alcohol consumption; Alcohol regulation; Government monopoly; Mortality; Privatization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE; ALCOHOLISM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CATERING SERVICE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRITISH COLUMBIA; COMMERCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; PRIVATIZATION; RESTAURANTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952311764     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.03331.x     Document Type: Article

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