Education and Alcohol Consumption among Older Americans; Black–White Differences

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 4, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Assari, Shervin ^a,b   Lankarani, Maryam Moghani ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Medicine and Health Promotion Institute   (Iran)

Author keywords

African Americans; alcohol; drinking; education; ethnic groups; population groups; socioeconomics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85030664877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2016.00067     Document Type: Article

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