Nature, prevalence and risk factors of alcohol use in an urban slum of southern India

National Medical Journal of India

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 203-209

  Kim, Sunmin ^a   Rifkin, Samara ^b   John, Sushil Mathew ^c   Jacob, K S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL USE DISORDER; ALCOHOL USE DISORDER IDENTIFICATION TEST; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; POVERTY AREAS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899456686     PISSN: 0970258X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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