Managing alcohol-related problems among Indigenous Australians: what the literature tells us
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Epidemiology of alcohol-related burden of disease among Indigenous Australians.
OBJECTIVE To compare the burden of alcohol-related harm and underlying factors of this harm, by age and sex, for Indigenous and general population Australians. METHODS Population attributable fractions are used to estimate the disability adjusted life years (DALYs) for alcohol-related disease and injury. The DALYs were converted to rates per 1,000 by age and sex for the Indigenous and general...
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عنوان ژورنال: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1326-0200
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2010.00550.x