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    Who is responsible?

    Series series Health Care and Disease Management
    Exposing a developing embryo or fetus to alcohol can produce life long brain damage with neurological, cognitive and behavioural consequences. The implications of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder for the affected individual and the family are devastating. The social and economic burden to society is enormous with formidable expenditures in health care, mental health care, education, social services ... Leer más

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  • Alcohol, Tobacco and Obesity

    Morality, Mortality and the New Public Health

    Series series Routledge Studies in Public Health
    Although drinking, smoking and obesity have attracted social and moral condemnation to varying degrees for more than two hundred years, over the past few decades they have come under intense attack from the field of public health as an 'unholy trinity' of lifestyle behaviours with apparently devastating medical, social and economic consequences. Indeed, we appear to be in the midst of an important ... Leer más

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  • The Status Syndrome

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