Substance-attributable Morbidity and Mortality Changes to Canada’s Epidemiological Profile
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Substance-attributable morbidity and mortality changes to Canada's epidemiological profile: measurable differences over a ten-year period.
BACKGROUND Substance use is responsible for a large burden of disease in Canada, however updated data are needed for health care planning and policy development. This study replicates and makes improvements on 1992 estimates of substance-attributable morbidity and mortality for the year 2002. There are two objectives, the main one being to compare the substance-attributable morbidity and mortal...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Public Health
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0008-4263,1920-7476
DOI: 10.1007/bf03403718