Alcohol and fatal life trajectories in Russia: Understanding narrative accounts of premature male death in the family

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Saburova, Lyudmila ^a   Keenan, Katherine ^b   Bobrova, Natalia ^c   Leon, David A ^b   Elbourne, Diana ^b  

^a KALASHNIKOV IZHEVSK STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PREMATURE MORTALITY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY, PREMATURE; RUSSIA;

EID: 79959219697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-481     Document Type: Article

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