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Alcohol, gender and drinking problems : perspectives from low and middle income countries

Title
Alcohol, gender and drinking problems : perspectives from low and middle income countries / edited by Isidore S. Obot & Robin Room.
Publication
Geneva : World Health Organization, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, [2005], ©2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Obot, Isidore S.
  • Room, Robin.
  • GENACIS (Organization)
  • World Health Organization. Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse.
Description
viii, 227 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Alcoholism > Social aspects
  • Men > Alcohol use
  • Women > Alcohol use
  • Alcoholism
  • Men
  • Women
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also issued online.
Contents
Why study gender, alcohol and culture? / Richard W. Wilsnack, Sharon C. Wilsnack & Isidore S. Obot -- Social consequences of alcohol consumption in Argentina / Myriam I. Munné -- Differences in drinking patterns between men and women in Brazil / Florence Kerr-Corrêa ... [et al.] -- Alcohol, gender and partner aggression: a study in the greater metropolitan area of Costa Rica / Julio Bejarano-Orozco -- Women and alcohol in India / Vivek Benegal ... [et al.] -- Alcohol consumption in Mexican women: implications in a syncretic culture / Martha Romero Mendoza ... [et al.] -- The contexts of alcohol consumption by men and women in Nigeria / Akanidomo J. Ibanga ... [et al.] -- Gender and alcohol in Sri Lanka / Siri Hettige & Dharmadasa Paranagama -- Gender and the major consequences of alcohol consumption in Uganda / Nazarius Mbona Tumwesigye & Rogers Kasirye -- Problems from women's and men's drinking in eight developing countries / Robin Room & Klara Hradilova Selin.
ISBN
9241563028
OCLC
  • ocm67710854
  • SCSB-5250264
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries