Decline in alcohol use among adolescents in Slovakia: a reason for optimism?

Public Health

Volumn 139, Issue , 2016, Pages 203-208

  Baska T ^a   Madarasova Geckova A ^b   Baskova M ^a   Krajcovic A ^a  

^a University Hospital in Martin   (Slovakia)

^b P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Alcohol drinking; Epidemiology; Policy

Indexed keywords

BEVERAGE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; POLICY APPROACH; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PROBLEM; YOUNG POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BEER; CHILD; DRINKING; FEMALE; GIRL; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; LAW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTIMISM; QUESTIONNAIRE; SLOVAKIA; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC POLICY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

SLOVAKIA;

ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; CHILD; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PUBLIC POLICY; SLOVAKIA; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84991448198     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: 14765616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2016.08.003     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. 1 World Health Organization, Global status report on alcohol and health., 2014, WHO, Geneva.
2. 2 World Health Organization, Status report on alcohol and health in 35 European countries., 2013, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen.
3. 3 Kuntsche, E., Knibbe, R., Gmel, G., Engels, R., Who drinks and why? A review of socio-demographic, personality, and contextual issues behind the drinking motives in young people. Addict Behav 31 (2006), 1844–1857.
4. 4 Kuntsche, E., Gabhainn, S.N., Roberts, C., Windlin, B., Vieno, A., Bendtsen, P., et al. Drinking motives and links to alcohol use in 13 European countries. J Stud Alcohol Drugs 75 (2014), 428–437.
5. 5 Engels, R.C.M.E., ter Bogt, T.F., Influences of risk behaviours on the quality of peer relations in adolescence. J Youth Adolesc 30 (2001), 675–695.
6. 6 Bendtsen, P., Damsgaard, M.T., Tolstrup, J.S., Ersbøll, A.K., Holstein, B.E., Adolescent alcohol use reflects community-level alcohol consumption irrespective of parental drinking. J Adolesc Health 53 (2013), 368–373.
7. 7 Simons-Morton, B., Pickett, W., Boyce, W., ter Bogt, T.F., Vollebergh, W., Cross-national comparison of adolescent drinking and cannabis use in the United States, Canada, and The Netherlands. Int J Drug Policy 21 (2010), 64–69.
8. 8 Purshouse, R.C., Meier, P.S., Brennan, A., Taylor, K.B., Rafia, R., Estimated effect of alcohol pricing policies on health and health economic outcomes in England: an epidemiological model. Lancet 375 (2010), 1355–1364.
9. 9 Esser, M.B., Jernigan, D.H., Assessing restrictiveness of national alcohol marketing policies. Alcohol Alcohol 49 (2014), 557–562.
10. 10 Simons-Morton, B.G., Farhat, T., ter Bogt, T.F., Hublet, A., Kuntsche, E., Nic Gabhainn, S., et al. Gender specific trends in alcohol use: cross-cultural comparisons from 1998 to 2006 in 24 countries and regions. Int J Public Health 54:Suppl. 2 (2009), 199–208.
11. 11 Kuntsche, E., Kuntsche, S., Knibbe, R., Simons-Morton, B., Farhat, T., Hublet, A., et al. Cultural and gender convergence in adolescent drunkenness: evidence from 23 European and North American countries. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 165 (2011), 152–158.
12. 12 Zaborskis, A., Sumskas, L., Maser, M., Pudule, I., Trends in drinking habits among adolescents in the Baltic countries over the period of transition: HBSC survey results, 1993–2002. BMC Public Health, 6, 2006, 67.
13. 13 Looze, M.D., Raaijmakers, Q., Bogt, T.T., Bendtsen, P., Farhat, T., Ferreira, M., et al. Decreases in adolescent weekly alcohol use in Europe and North America: evidence from 28 countries from 2002 to 2010. Eur J Public Health 25:Suppl. 2 (2015), 69–72.
14. 14 HBSC survey methods, 2016 Available at: http://www.hbsc.org/methods/index.html (last accessed 9 January 2016).
15. 15 HBSC Publications, International reports., 2016, HBSC Publications Available at: http://www.hbsc.org/publications/international/ (last accessed 9 January 2016).
16. 16 Inchley, J., Currie, D., Young, T., Samdal, O., Torsheim, T., Augustson, L., et al. (eds.) Growing up unequal: gender and socioeconomic differences in young people's health and well-being. Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) Study: international Report from the 2013/2014 survey, 2016, World Health Organization, Copenhagen.
17. 17 Zatonski, W., Manczuk, M., Sulkowska, U., HEM Project Team. Closing the health gap in European Union. 2008, Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Division, the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw.
18. 18 Rehm, J., Shield, K.D., Rehm, M.X., Gmel, G., Frick, U., Alcohol consumption, alcohol dependence and attributable burden of disease in Europe: potential gains from effective interventions for alcohol dependence. 2012, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto.
19. 19 Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic, 2016 Available at: www.statistics.sk (last accessed 23 May 2016).
20. 20 European Trade Union Institute, Wage development infographic. 2016, European Trade Union Institute, Brussels Available at: https://www.etui.org/Topics/Crisis-austerity-alternatives/Wage-development-infographic (last accessed 23 May 2016).
21. 21 World Health Organization, Global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol. 2010, WHO, Geneva.
22. 22 Kuntsche, E., Knibbe, R., Gmel, G., Engels, R., 'I drink spirits to get drunk and block out my problems...' beverage preference, drinking motives and alcohol use in adolescence. Alcohol Alcohol 41 (2006), 566–573.
23. 23 Naimi, T.S., Siegel, M., DeJong, W., O'Doherty, C., Jernigan, D., Beverage- and brand-specific binge alcohol consumption among underage youth in the U.S. J Subst Use 20 (2015), 333–339.
24. 24 Lintonen, T., Ahlström, S., Metso, L., The reliability of self-reported drinking in adolescence. Alcohol Alcohol 39 (2004), 362–368.
25. 25 Bye, E.K., Rossow, I., The impact of drinking pattern on alcohol-related violence among adolescents: an international comparative analysis. Drug Alcohol Rev 29 (2010), 131–137.