The role of race/ethnicity in alcohol-attributable injury in the United States

Epidemiologic Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 89-102

  Keyes, Katherine M ^a,b   Liu, Xianfang C ^a   Cerda, Magdalena ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

accidents; alcohol drinking; alcoholic intoxication; homicide; minority health; motor vehicles; suicide; wounds and injuries

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL ATTRIBUTABLE INJURY; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; DROWNING; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FALLING; FIRE; HISPANIC; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SUICIDE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84862908294     PISSN: 0193936X     EISSN: 14786729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/epirev/mxr018     Document Type: Review

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