Alcohol consumption and sickness absence: evidence from microdata
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Alcohol consumption and sickness absence: evidence from microdata.
BACKGROUND Aggregate time-series evidence has shown that overall per capita alcohol consumption is associated with sickness absence. This study re-examines the relationship between alcohol consumption and sickness absence by using individual-level microdata and methods that yield results which are less likely to be due to spurious correlations. METHODS Data on sickness absence and alcohol con...
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عنوان ژورنال: The European Journal of Public Health
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1101-1262,1464-360X
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckn116