Citation

Johansson K, San Sebastian M, Hammarström A, Gustafsson PE. Health Place 2015; 33: 187-194.

Affiliation

Umeå University, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Unit of Social Medicine, 901 85 Umeå, Sweden. Electronic address: per.e.gustafsson@umu.se.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.healthplace.2015.03.005

PMID

25841093

Abstract

This study tests if neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and family social and material adversities during adolescence are independently related to total alcohol consumption from adolescence through to mid-life. Self-reports from the Northern Swedish Cohort (effective sample=950) at ages 16, 18, 21, 30 and 42 was combined with register data on the socioeconomic composition of neighbourhoods at age 16. Total volume of alcohol consumed between age 16-42 was estimated based on the five survey waves, and self-reported social and material adversities were computed as composite variables. Neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage at age 16 was associated with alcohol consumption age 16-42 for men but not for women. Social adversities at age 16 were associated with alcohol consumption age 16-42 for both women and men, but material adversity or parental class was not. In conclusion, neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage in adolescence has a significant relationship with later alcohol consumption among men, even independently from individual factors. On family level, social factors but not socioeconomic factors in adolescence independently predict later alcohol consumption.

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Language: en

Keywords

Adolescence; Alcohol; Life course; Neighborhood; Social determinants