scholarly journals The association between alcohol outlet density and alcohol use among urban and regional Australian adolescents

Addiction ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 111 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Azar ◽  
Victoria White ◽  
Kerri Coomber ◽  
Agatha Faulkner ◽  
Michael Livingston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Alcohol Outlet ◽  
Alcohol Outlet Density ◽  
Outlet Density

scholarly journals Testing a Social Mechanism: Does Alcohol Outlet Density Moderate the Relationship Between Levels of Alcohol Use and Child Physical Abuse?

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 1080-1099 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bridget Freisthler ◽  
Jennifer Price Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Physical Abuse ◽  
Child Physical Abuse ◽  
Drinking Patterns ◽  
Alcohol Outlet ◽  
Alcohol Outlet Density ◽  
Outlet Density ◽  
Parental Alcohol Use ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Parental Alcohol

Objectives: Parental alcohol use and alcohol outlet density are both associated with child abuse. Guided by alcohol availability theory, this article examines whether alcohol outlet density moderates the relationship between parental alcohol use and child physical abuse. Methods: A general population telephone survey of 3,023 parents or legal guardians 18 years or older was conducted across 50 California cities, whereas densities of alcohol outlets were measured for by zip code. Data were analyzed via overdispersed multilevel Poisson models. Results: Ex-drinkers, light drinkers, and heavy drinkers use physical abuse more often than lifetime abstainers. Moderate drinking was not related to child physical abuse. Proportion of bars was negatively related to frequency of physical abuse. Moderating relationships between alcohol outlet density and drinking categories were found for all drinking patterns. Conclusion: Different types of alcohol outlets may be differentially related to drinking patterns, indicating that the interaction of drinking patterns and the drinking environment may place children at greater risk for being physically abused.

scholarly journals Limiting Alcohol Outlet Density to Prevent Alcohol Use and Violence: Estimating Policy Interventions Through Agent-Based Modeling

2019 ◽  
Vol 188 (4) ◽  
pp. 694-702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alvaro Castillo-Carniglia ◽  
Veronica A Pear ◽  
Melissa Tracy ◽  
Katherine M Keyes ◽  
Magdalena Cerdá
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Agent Based Modeling ◽  
Alcohol Outlet ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Alcohol Outlet Density ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Outlet Density

Neighborhood alcohol outlet density and genetic influences on alcohol use: evidence for gene–environment interaction

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 474-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy S. Slutske ◽  
Arielle R. Deutsch ◽  
Thomas M. Piasecki
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Environment Interaction ◽  
Confidence Limits ◽  
Alcohol Outlet ◽  
Alcohol Outlets ◽  
Alcohol Outlet Density ◽  
Gene Environment Interaction ◽  
Alcohol Involvement ◽  
Gene Environment ◽  
Outlet Density

AbstractBackgroundGenetic influences on alcohol involvement are likely to vary as a function of the ‘alcohol environment,’ given that exposure to alcohol is a necessary precondition for genetic risk to be expressed. However, few gene–environment interaction studies of alcohol involvement have focused on characteristics of the community-level alcohol environment. The goal of this study was to examine whether living in a community with more alcohol outlets would facilitate the expression of the genetic propensity to drink in a genetically-informed national survey of United States young adults.MethodsThe participants were 2434 18–26-year-old twin, full-, and half-sibling pairs from Wave III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Participants completed in-home interviews in which alcohol use was assessed. Alcohol outlet densities were extracted from state-level liquor license databases aggregated at the census tract level to derive the density of outlets.ResultsThere was evidence that the estimates of genetic and environmental influences on alcohol use varied as a function of the density of alcohol outlets in the community. For example, the heritability of the frequency of alcohol use for those residing in a neighborhood with ten or more outlets was 74% (95% confidence limits = 55–94%), compared with 16% (95% confidence limits = 0–34%) for those in a neighborhood with zero outlets. This moderating effect of alcohol outlet density was not explained by the state of residence, population density, or neighborhood sociodemographic characteristics.ConclusionsThe results suggest that living in a neighborhood with many alcohol outlets may be especially high-risk for those individuals who are genetically predisposed to frequently drink.

scholarly journals Acute alcohol use among suicide decedents in 14 US states: impacts of off-premise and on-premise alcohol outlet density

Addiction ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 110 (2) ◽  
pp. 300-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman Giesbrecht ◽  
Nathalie Huguet ◽  
Lauren Ogden ◽  
Mark S. Kaplan ◽  
Bentson H. McFarland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Alcohol Outlet ◽  
Us States ◽  
Alcohol Outlet Density ◽  
Outlet Density

scholarly journals Collective efficacy, alcohol outlet density, and young men’s alcohol use in rural South Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 190-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah H. Leslie ◽  
Jennifer Ahern ◽  
Audrey E. Pettifor ◽  
Rhian Twine ◽  
Kathleen Kahn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Alcohol Outlet ◽  
Rural South ◽  
Alcohol Outlet Density ◽  
Outlet Density ◽  
Rural South Africa

The Application of Spatial Analysis to the Public Health Understanding of Alcohol and Alcohol-Related Problems

2011 ◽  
pp. 57-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Lipton ◽  
D. M. Gorman ◽  
Paul Gruenewald
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Alcohol Problems ◽  
General Context ◽  
Alcohol Outlet ◽  
The Public ◽  
Alcohol Outlet Density ◽  
Public Health Information ◽  
Outlet Density ◽  
Alcohol Related Problems

This chapter describes research that uses spatial modeling to address pressing issues related to a public health understanding of alcohol problems and violence. First, we introduce the language of spatial analysis used in prevention work and discuss the details of spatial research that result in useful public health information, particularly in regard to alcohol-related problems. Issues such as geo-mapping, variable selection, and area definition are discussed in regard to community level occurrence of such problems. We then discuss the general context for understanding the geographic relationship between alcohol outlet density and violent crime. Finally, we give a specific example of an analysis focusing on alcohol outlets and violence. This work is related to the major goal of studying the community geography of alcohol problems by mapping the alcohol environment, relating these features of the environment to the spatial distribution of problem events, and analyzing the statistical associations between these measures and drinking behaviors.

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