TY - JOUR
T1 - Contextual Determinants of Alcohol Consumption Changes and Preventive Alcohol Policies: A 12-Country European Study in Progress
AU - Allamani, Allaman
AU - Voller, Fabio
AU - Decarli, Adriano
AU - Casotto, Veronica
AU - Pantzer, Karin
AU - Anderson, Peter
AU - Gual, Antoni
AU - Matrai, Silvia
AU - Elekes, Zsuzsanna
AU - Eisenbach-Stangl, Irmgard
AU - Schmied, Gabriele
AU - Knibbe, Ronald A.
AU - Nordlund, Sturla
AU - Skjaelaaen, Oystein
AU - Olsson, Borje
AU - Ornberg, Jenny Cisneros
AU - Osterberg, Esa
AU - Karlsson, Thomas
AU - Plant, Martin
AU - Plant, Moira
AU - Miller, Patrick
AU - Coghill, Nikki
AU - Swiatkiewicz, Grazyna
AU - Wieczorek, Lukasz
AU - Annaheim, Beatrice
AU - Gmel, Gerhard
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Beginning with France in the 1950s, alcohol consumption has decreased in Southern European countries with few or no preventive alcohol policy measures being implemented, while alcohol consumption has been increasing in Northern European countries where historically more restrictive alcohol control policies were in place, even though more recently they were loosened. At the same time, Central and Eastern Europe have shown an intermediate behavior. We propose that country-specific changes in alcohol consumption between 1960 and 2008 are explained by a combination of a number of factors: (1) preventive alcohol policies and (2) social, cultural, economic, and demographic determinants. This article describes the methodology of a research study designed to understand the complex interactions that have occurred throughout Europe over the past five decades. These include changes in alcohol consumption, drinking patterns and alcohol-related harm, and the actual determinants of such changes.
AB - Beginning with France in the 1950s, alcohol consumption has decreased in Southern European countries with few or no preventive alcohol policy measures being implemented, while alcohol consumption has been increasing in Northern European countries where historically more restrictive alcohol control policies were in place, even though more recently they were loosened. At the same time, Central and Eastern Europe have shown an intermediate behavior. We propose that country-specific changes in alcohol consumption between 1960 and 2008 are explained by a combination of a number of factors: (1) preventive alcohol policies and (2) social, cultural, economic, and demographic determinants. This article describes the methodology of a research study designed to understand the complex interactions that have occurred throughout Europe over the past five decades. These include changes in alcohol consumption, drinking patterns and alcohol-related harm, and the actual determinants of such changes.
KW - alcohol consumption
KW - sociocultural determinants
KW - demographics
KW - alcohol policy
KW - time trend
U2 - 10.3109/10826084.2011.572942
DO - 10.3109/10826084.2011.572942
M3 - Article
C2 - 21692604
SN - 1082-6084
VL - 46
SP - 1288
EP - 1303
JO - Substance Use & Misuse
JF - Substance Use & Misuse
IS - 10
ER -