Lit Review #3


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Citation:

Cook, Won Kim, et al. “State Alcohol Policies, Binge Drinking Prevalence, Socioeconomic Environments and Alcohol’s Harms to Others: A Mediation Analysis.” Alcohol and Alcoholism 

 

Summary:

In this article, Cook analyzes the dangers of binge drinking and explains why state policies are needed to prevent it. His study looks at the relationship between state alcohol policy and binge drinking prevalence. He uses a method of three-level mediation to look at state policy effects on drinking habits. The results were a decreased rate of assault, vandalism, and binge drinking due to state policy.


Author:

Won Kim Cook, the author, has an education from Northwestern University and UC Berkeley with a major in Education. She now focuses on public health while working in the Public Health Institute in California. She
focuses on the study of alcohol use among individuals. 


Key Terms:

APS-Alcohol Policy Scale 

SES- socioeconomic status 

AHTO- Alcohol policy effects on alcohol’s harms due to others’ drinking 


Quotes:

“The effects of the APS on reduced risks for assault/vandalism and drinking-driving harms were significantly mediated by reduced state binge drinking prevalence.”

“A more stringent alcohol policy environment could reduce assault/vandalism and driving-related harm due to another drinker by lowering state binge drinking rates”

“One contextual factor (state binge drinking prevalence) mediates policy effects on harms due to externalizing behaviors (assault/vandalism and drinking driving) of other drinkers. The other (state SES) influences the mediator and undermines policy efforts, while independently affecting the other outcome, family/marital problems, which take place in a more private sphere.”


Value:

This article is of value to my paper because it shows the way state policy can influence binge drinking. In my thesis, I state how there needs to be a prevention of binge drinking and the content of this article proves that state policy prevents binge drinking.

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