Changing trends in European alcoholic beverage drinking: Selected social, demographic, economic factors, drinking's related harms, and prevention control policies between the 1960s and 2000s

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1515-1530

  Voller, Fabio ^a   MacCari, Francesco ^b   Pepe, Pasquale ^a   Allamani, Allaman ^a  

^a Regione Toscana Health Agency   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alcohol control policy measures; Consumption of alcoholic beverages; Europe; Liver disease related mortality; Socio demographic and economic factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE; COST; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HISTORY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84907045949     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: 15322491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10826084.2014.914374     Document Type: Article

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