Socioeconomic inequalities in the delivery of brief interventions for smoking and excessive drinking: findings from a cross-sectional household survey in England

What is it about?

Clinical guidelines recommend that family doctors should offer patients who smoke or drink excessively support and advice to help them cut down, but we know that this does not always happen in practice. We explored what patient characteristics, including living in poorer areas, were associated with receipt of this support.

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