The PACARDO research project: youthful drug involvement in Central America and the Dominican Republic Proyecto de investigación PACARDO: el consumo de drogas entre la juventud en Centroamérica y la República Dominicana

The PACARDO research project: youthful drug involvement in Central America and the Dominican Republic Proyecto de investigación PACARDO: el consumo de drogas entre la juventud en Centroamérica y la República Dominicana

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the occurrence and school-level clustering of drug involvement among school-attending adolescent youths in each of seven countries in Latin America, drawing upon evidence from the PACARDO research project, a multinational collaborative epidemiological research study. METHODS:...

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Main Authors: Catherine M. Dormitzer, Gonzalo B. Gonzalez, Marcel Penna, Julio Bejarano, Patricia Obando, Mauricio Sanchez, Kenneth Vittetoe, Ulises Gutierrez, Juan Alfaro, Guillermo Meneses, Jorge Bolivar Diaz, Manuel Herrera, Julia Hasbun, Anna Chisman, Luis Caris, Chen Chuan-Yu, James C. Anthony
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pan American Health Organization 2004-06-01
Series:Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
Subjects:
Adolescent
adolescent behavior
alcohol drinking
smoking
substance-related disorders
Central America
Dominican Republic
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1020-49892004000600006

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