Public Health Thinking Around Alcohol-Related Harm: Why Does Per Capita Consumption Matter?
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Objective:Alcohol per capita consumption (APC) is used for monitoring harmful alcohol exposure in populations and assessing progress with goals set internationally nationally. Recently, the alc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1938-4114', '1937-1888']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.2021.82.9