TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Contextual Determinants of Alcohol Consumption Changes and Preventive Alcohol Policies: A 12-Country European Study in Progress
JO  - Substance use and misuse
A1  - Allamani, Allaman
A1  - Voller, Fabio
A1  - Decarli, Adriano
A1  - Casotto, Veronica
A1  - Pantzer, Karin
A1  - Anderson, Peter
A1  - Gual, Antoni
A1  - Matrai, Silvia
A1  - Elekes, Zsuzsanna
A1  - Eisenbach-Stangl, Irmgard
A1  - Schmied, Gabriele
A1  - Knibbe, Ronald A.
A1  - Nordlund, Sturla
A1  - Skjælaaen, Oystein
A1  - Olsson, Börje
A1  - Cisneros Örnberg, Jenny
A1  - Österberg, Esa
A1  - Karlsson, Thomas
A1  - Plant, Martin
A1  - Plant, Moira
A1  - Miller, Patrick
A1  - Coghill, Nikki
A1  - Swiatkiewicz, Grazyna
A1  - Wieczorek, Lukasz
A1  - Annaheim, Beatrice
A1  - Gmel, Gerhard
SP  - 1288
EP  - 1303
VL  - 46
IS  - 10
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.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1082-6084
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10826084.2011.572942
ID  - ref1
ER  -