Social roles and alcohol consumption: A study of 10 industrialised countries

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1263-1270

  Kuntsche, Sandra ^a   Knibbe, Ronald A ^b   Gmel, Gerhard ^a  

^a SWISS INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG PROBLEMS   (Switzerland)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Binge drinking; Gender; International comparisons; Social roles

Indexed keywords

AGE; ALCOHOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRINKING; GENDER ROLE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; POISONING; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROLE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORLD HEALTH;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; NORTH AMERICA; SWITZERLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 62249217154     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.01.018     Document Type: Article

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