Associations between national gambling policies and disordered gambling prevalence rates within Europe

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 217-229

  Planzer, Simon ^a,b   Gray, Heather M ^a   Shaffer, Howard J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Advertising; Disordered gambling; European Union; Gambling policy; Internal Market; Prevalence rates

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADVERTIZING; AGE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EUROPE; GAMBLING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; POLICY; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; AGE FACTORS; DATA COLLECTION; EUROPE; GAMBLING; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC POLICY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893866226     PISSN: 01602527     EISSN: 18736386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2013.11.002     Document Type: Article

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