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Societal norms and risk-taking behaviour: inter-cultural comparisons of casualties and alcohol consumption.
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Addiction (Abingdon, England) [Addiction] 1993 Jul; Vol. 88 (7), pp. 867-76. - Publication Year :
- 1993
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Abstract
- Inter-cultural comparisons point to associations among aggregate rates of consumption and certain alcohol-related complications, particularly chronic effects, such as liver cirrhosis mortality. Accidental, poisoning and violent incidents are not considered to have as strong an association with societal drinking patterns, since situational, environmental and interactional features contributing to the incident are likely to play a strong role relative to the volume of alcohol consumed. This paper compares annual alcohol consumption rates and male and female mortality rates for liver cirrhosis and 12 main accidental/violent causes of death for Canada, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the US between 1965 and 1987. Using filtering techniques to account for autocorrelation, conservative measures of association were developed. The results indicate that while statistically significant correlations were evident with regard to liver cirrhosis and suicide in some jurisdictions, in most instances the comparisons were not significant. Further work is suggested with regard to the following: utilizing more refined approaches to examine the covariations of casualties and alcohol consumption, and studies combining aggregate level investigations with those focusing at the group or interactional level--in particular those specifying and examining societal norms and risk-taking at the group and sub-population levels.
- Subjects :
- Accidents statistics & numerical data
Alcohol Drinking mortality
Alcohol Drinking psychology
Canada epidemiology
Cause of Death
Female
Finland epidemiology
France epidemiology
Homicide statistics & numerical data
Humans
Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic mortality
Male
Mortality
Sociology
Suicide statistics & numerical data
Switzerland epidemiology
Systems Analysis
United States epidemiology
Wounds and Injuries epidemiology
Accidents mortality
Alcohol Drinking epidemiology
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Risk-Taking
Wounds and Injuries mortality
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0965-2140
- Volume :
- 88
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Addiction (Abingdon, England)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 8358258
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.1993.tb02104.x