Substance use and the objectives of current global health frameworks: measurement matters

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Affiliations

¹ World Health Organization/Pan American Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Institute for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
⁵ Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁶ Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁷ Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Editorial

Kevin D Shield et al. Addiction. 2019 May.

. 2019 May;114(5):771-773.

doi: 10.1111/add.14485. Epub 2018 Nov 16.

Kevin D Shield^{1

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3}, Jürgen Rehm^{1

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3

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¹ World Health Organization/Pan American Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Institute for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
⁵ Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁶ Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁷ Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

No abstract available

Keywords: Frameworks; goals; health; measurement; morbidity; mortality.

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