Drug and Alcohol Dependence
Volume 91, Issue 2 , Pages 244-252 , 1 December 2007

The built environment and alcohol consumption in urban neighborhoods

  • Kyle T. Bernstein

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY 10013, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Bureau of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control, 40 Worth Street, Room 1502, New York, NY 10013, USA. Tel.: +1 212 788 4284; fax: +1 212 788 2273.
    • ,
  • Sandro Galea

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
    • Center for Urban Epidemiology Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
    • Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY 10032, USA
    • ,
  • Jennifer Ahern

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
    • Division of Epidemiology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94530, USA
    • ,
  • Melissa Tracy

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
    • Center for Urban Epidemiology Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
    • ,
  • David Vlahov

      Affiliations

    • Center for Urban Epidemiology Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
    • Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY 10032, USA

Received 26 July 2006 ,Revised 13 March 2007 ,Accepted 5 June 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2007.06.006

Drug and Alcohol Dependence
Volume 91, Issue 2 , Pages 244-252 , 1 December 2007

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