Italy Between Drinking Culture and Control Policies for Alcoholic Beverages


18/8/2014
immagine articoli scientifici 2014Autori: Allamani A, Voller F, Pepe P, Baccini M, Massini G, Cipriani F
Rivista: Subst Use Misuse. 2014 Aug 14





This paper focuses on whether the on-going dramatic decrease in alcohol consumption in Italy, especially of wine, during 1961-2008, was associated with which parallel sociodemographic and economic changes and with alcohol control
policies. The study, using both time series (TS) and artificial neural network (ANN)-based analyses documents that its selected sociodemographic and economic factors, and particularly urbanization, had a definite connection with wine consumption decrease, spirits decrease, and the increase in beer consumption over time...

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