Selected sociodemographic factors and related differences in patterns of alcohol use among university students in Slovakia

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Sebena, Rene ^a   Orosova, Olga ^a   Mikolajczyk, Rafael T ^b   Van Dijk, Jitse P ^a,c  

^a P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR PREVENTION RESEARCH AND EPIDEMIOLOGY BIPS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SLOVAKIA; SOCIAL CLASS; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SLOVAKIA; SOCIAL CLASS; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80655128673     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-849     Document Type: Article

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