Times to drink: Cross-cultural variations in drinking in the rhythm of the week

International Journal of Public Health

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 107-117

  Room, Robin ^a,b,c   Mäkelä, Pia ^d   Benegal, Vivek ^e   Greenfield, Thomas K ^f   Hettige, Siri ^g   Tumwesigye, Nazarius M ^h   Wilsnack, Richard ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b TURNING POINT ALCOHOL AND DRUG CENTRE   (Australia)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

^f PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^h MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol consumption; Alcohol problems; Cross cultural; Drinking times; Gender; Temporal rhythm; Time of day; Weekend

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PACIFIC ISLANDS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; TIME;

AFRICA; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ASIA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DATA COLLECTION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; MALE; OCEANIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84858796892     PISSN: 16618556     EISSN: 1420911X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00038-011-0259-3     Document Type: Article

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