Education, alcohol use and abuse among young adults in Britain

Epidemiology of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

“…133 Other lifestyle risk factors for causes of bleeding such as smoking, larger waist circumferences, and alcohol related diseases, are also more common in populations with higher levels of deprivation and could be modifiable through effective public health interventions. [134][135][136] However, the sub group analysis excluded previous alcohol related admissions CHAPTER 5: UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING OCCURRENCE: Discussion and this did not reduce any of the inequality in bleeding occurrence. Another potential cause of the inequality observed is that harmful prescribing practices have been shown to be increased for people with lower socioeconomic status; 137 lower skilled occupations had a higher chronic NSAID use (OR 1.4) than skilled workers despite a higher prevalence of dyspepsia.…”

Semi-parametric bivariate polychotomous ordinal regression

“…This is a non-trivial relationship since the level of education can act at different levels, and its overall effect is theoretically ambiguous. Recently, Huerta and Borgonovi (2010) surveyed and further elaborated on this aspect. On the one hand, more educated individuals are argued to have access to a wider spectrum of information relating to healthy behaviours, and usually acquire the necessary skills to process them and to act accordingly (Brunello et al, 2008, Goldman andSmith, 2005).…”

“…Our model specification follows the one proposed in the literature by Bratti and Miranda (2009) and Huerta and Borgonovi (2010) in a similar context, and controls for some childhood circumstances that are commonly associated with alcohol abuse (Caldwell et al, 2008, Droomers et al, 2003, Hemmingsson et al, 1999, Poulton et al, 2002. In particular, we include variables referring to the parental presence in children's life and their interest in children's education, maternal weekly working hours, the highest parental social class, ethnicity and home tenure.…”

Alcoholism: The Self-Reinforcing Feedback Loop

“…However, while people in lower socioeconomic groups are at increased risk of alcohol-use disorders, large proportions of individuals with such problems are highly functioning professionals (Catalbiano et al, 2008). Further, British research indicates that higher education level is a risk factor for problem drinking and daily alcohol consumption (Huerta & Borgonovi, 2010). In addition, as discussed in Section 4, there is increasing evidence for multiple predisposing factors that may render individuals particularly vulnerable to alcohol-use disorders, such as genetics (Kendler, Myers, Dick, & Prescott, 2010), early exposure to patterns of drinking in the home (Fergusson et al, 1994;Kendler et al, 2008), and trauma (Sacks & Keks, 1998).…”