Combating alcohol abuse: one household at a time
SOURCE: HSRC Review
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2014
TITLE AUTHOR(S): L.Pretorius, L.Simbayi, D.Labadarios
KEYWORDS: ALCOHOL USE, HOUSEHOLD DYNAMICS, SANHANES
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Web link: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/review/hsrc-review-march-2014/combating-alcohol-abuse
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 8139
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/2518
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/2518
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2014
TITLE AUTHOR(S): L.Pretorius, L.Simbayi, D.Labadarios
KEYWORDS: ALCOHOL USE, HOUSEHOLD DYNAMICS, SANHANES
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Web link: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/review/hsrc-review-march-2014/combating-alcohol-abuse
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 8139
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/2518
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/2518
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Abstract
Alcohol misuse remains a serious problem among South Africans, as almost a third of heads of households in informal urban areas who participated in SANHANES-I regarded alcohol misuse as a serious or very serious problem. Liezelle Pretorius, Leickness Simbayi and Demetre Labadarios report on the findings.-
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