Modelling vulnerability to gambling related harm: How disadvantage predicts gambling losses

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 329-338

  Rintoul, Angela C ^a   Livingstone, Charles ^a   Mellor, Andrew P ^b   Jolley, Damien ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

EGM; Gambling; GIS; Public health policy; Slots; Socioeconomic disadvantage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878844248     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066359.2012.727507     Document Type: Article

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