Citation

Banta JE, Haviland MG, Przekop P. Psychiatr. Serv. 2008; 59(2): 138.

Affiliation

Dept of Health Policy and Management, Loma Linda Univ School of Public Health, Loma Linda, California. (mhaviland@llu.edu)

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, American Psychiatric Association)

DOI

10.1176/appi.ps.59.2.138

PMID

18245153

Abstract

The California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) (www.chis.ucla.edu) has been conducted biannually since 2001 and is the largest subnational household telephone interview survey in the United States. In 2005 there were completed responses for 43,020 adults, representing 29.7 million Californians. Among men, an estimated 3.2 million (24.7%) engaged in binge drinking.

We conducted an ecological study of CHIS's estimated binge drinking rates per county and county group.

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