International health
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International Health Problems Related to Alcohol Abuse
The harmful use of alcohol inflicts great deal of social and economic losses on individuals and societies. Given the increase in world population and the predicted increase in alcohol consumption, the alcohol related burden of disease progressively catches higher ranks in the list of factors threatening humans' life. It has been considered that the social and economic burden related to alcohol ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Academic Medicine
سال: 1989
ISSN: 1040-2446
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-198901000-00005