Neighbourhood disadvantage and individual adversities in adolescence and total alcohol consumption up to mid-life—Results from the Northern Swedish Cohort. (May 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Johansson, Klara; San Sebastian, Miguel; Hammarström, Anne; Gustafsson, Per E.
• Is Part Of: Health & place. Volume 33(2015:May)
• Page Start: 187
• Page End: 194
• Publication Date: 2015-05
• Subjects: Adolescence -- Neighborhood -- Alcohol -- Life course -- Social determinants; Health -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Health services accessibility -- Periodicals; Public health -- Periodicals; Political planning -- Periodicals; Social medicine -- Periodicals; Epidemiology -- Periodicals; Health Policy -- Periodicals; Health Services Accessibility -- Periodicals; Public Health -- Periodicals; Public Policy -- Periodicals; Sociology, Medical -- Periodicals; Épidémiologie -- Périodiques; Politique sanitaire -- Périodiques; Santé, Services de -- Accessibilité -- Périodiques; Health services accessibility; Health -- Social aspects; Political planning; Public health; Social medicine; Periodicals; 613
• DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2015.03.005
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1353-8292

Abstract

Abstract: This study tests if neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and family social and material adversities during adolescence are independently related to total alcohol consumption from adolescence through to mid-life. Self-reports from the Northern Swedish Cohort (effective sample=950) at ages 16, 18, 21, 30 and 42 was combined with register data on the socioeconomic composition of neighbourhoods at age 16. Total volume of alcohol consumed between age 16–42 was estimated based on the five survey waves, and self-reported social and material adversities were computed as composite variables. Neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage at age 16 was associated with alcohol consumption age 16–42 for men but not for women. Social adversities at age 16 were associated with alcohol consumption age 16–42 for both women and men, but material adversity or parental class was not. In conclusion, neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage in adolescence has a significant relationship with later alcohol consumption among men, even independently from individual factors. On family level, social factors but not socioeconomic factors in adolescence independently predict later alcohol consumption. Highlights: Low socioeconomic composition of the neighbourhood of residence during adolescence is related to higher total alcohol consumption between ages 16 to 42, for men but not for women. This association remains when controlling for social and material adversities in the family during adolescence, as well as socioeconomic status of parents. Social adversities in the family during adolescence is independently related to higher total alcohol consumption between ages 16 to 42 for both men and women. There are no significant relationships between material adversities in the family or socioeconomic status of parents and total alcohol consumption between ages 16 to 42.