title: 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.
authors.affiliation: 1Regional Health Agency, Region of Tuscany , Florence , Italy.
authors.forename: Fabio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Voller
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Maccari
authors.forename: Pasquale
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pepe
authors.forename: Allaman
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Allamani
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000266:history / Q000517:prevention & control; D000434:Alcoholic Beverages / Q000191:economics; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005060:Europe / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006291:Health Policy / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
keywords: Europe; alcohol control policy measures; consumption of alcoholic beverages; liver disease-related mortality; socio-demographic and economic factors