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Assessing the health risks of consuming ‘sachet’ alcohol in Acoli, Uganda
The increased mortality rate among the Acoli people of northern Uganda is anecdotally blamed on excessive consumption of cheap and widely available sachet-packaged alcohol in the region. In this paper, we quantify this perceived association by determining statistically the health risks associated wi...
Autores principales: | Otim, Ochan, Juma, Tom, Otunnu, Olara |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6392317/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30811520 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212938 |
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