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01-06-2013 | Editorial

Scaling up alcohol intervention among youth and experiments of naturalistic settings

Author: Eduardo J. Simoes

Published in: International Journal of Public Health | Issue 3/2013

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The article “A quasi-randomized group trial of a brief alcohol intervention on risky single occasion drinking among secondary school students” (Gmel et al. 2012) contributes to the evidence around school-based interventions to prevent alcohol consumption among youngsters. Its divergent findings add to the mixed results common in systematic reviews around alcohol prevention. …

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Title: Scaling up alcohol intervention among youth and experiments of naturalistic settings
Author: Eduardo J. Simoes
Publication date: 01-06-2013
Publisher: SP Birkhäuser Verlag Basel
Published in: International Journal of Public Health / Issue 3/2013
Print ISSN: 1661-8556
Electronic ISSN: 1661-8564
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-013-0442-9

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Scaling up alcohol intervention among youth and experiments of naturalistic settings

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