A new measure of alcohol affordability for the UK.
Aims: To present revisions to the official UK measure of alcohol affordability published by the National Health Service (NHS) Information Centre. The revisions address the following problems in the official measure: (a) The income measure used in the calculation is a measure of the income for the wh...
| Publicado en: | Alcohol & Alcoholism Vol. 45; no. 6; pp. 581 - 586 |
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| Formato: | equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Nov/Dec2010
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