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

Abstract

This study confirms that during the decades following WW II there was a tendency towards closure of consumption of alcoholic beverages among the European countries. The Northern countries, which during the 1960s manifested the lowest rates of alcohol consumption, ended up with greater consumption rates than the Southern countries, manifested the opposite trend; greater amounts of consumptions in the 1960s and lower consumptions in the 2000s. During the same some period, social, demographic and economic indicators--urbanization, rate of elderly males, Income, female education, female employment and mother's age at their childbirths, tended to increase, while the alcoholic beverage control policy strategies showed differences according to the country. Liver disease-related mortality, decreased in most countries. Study limitations are noted.

Assessing the European impact of alcohol misuse and illicit drug dependence research: clinical practice guidelines and evidence-base policy

“…To provide guidance to policy makers in health, policing and social care, the harms that illicit drugs and alcohol cause and how to reduce them need to be assessed and substantiated with evidence – something that is considered a complex task due to a range of ways in which drugs can cause harm 4 31 39. The complexity of the policy problem is further exacerbated by the regional and stakeholder differences in the outcomes they consider and value in terms of harm caused to the individual and society and how to best reduce it 4 31 39–41. Our findings reflect this variation showing skewed regional coverage on the topic across the countries.…”

Alcohol brings burdens: A global and continent wise study on alcohol consumption and global burden of diseases

“…In terms of alcohol attributable deaths, years of life lost and DALYs, Europe has the highest alcohol attributable burden of diseases compared to other regions [ 17 ]. Though the consumptions of alcoholic beverages in Europe have been decreasing over last decades, decrease in drivers on disease related burden have been caused due to advancement of social, economic, cultural and demographic determinants [ 33 , 34 ]. According to the results, countries that have high development of socio demographic have a negative influence on burden of diseases.…”

A Commentary About the AMPHORA Study: Selected Caveats, Comments, and Considerations About Its Conditions of Diversity, Uncertainty, and Unpredictability

“…. .An uncertainty perspective" (Allamani Olimpi et al, in this SUM Special Issue): "One of the aims of the AMPHORA project was to demonstrate the relevance of the impact of sociodemographic and economic factors in a country (Allamani, Voller, Decarli et al, 2011;AMPHORA 2013;Allamani, Voller, Pepe et al, 2014, and the papers in this special issue). However, other aspects can be identified, which were only partially taken into account by the AMPHORA study: factors of migration, religious, and political, major socio-political events-"big events"-and cultural activities."…”