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Community Indicators: Assessing the Impact of Alcohol Use on Communities

Community indicators are used to assess the impact of alcohol on communities. This article reviews the main data sources for community indicators, discusses their strengths and limitations, and discusses indicators used in reference to four main topics relating to alcohol use and problems at the com...

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Autores principales: Flynn, Andrea, Wells, Samantha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3908705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24881322
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Sumario:Community indicators are used to assess the impact of alcohol on communities. This article reviews the main data sources for community indicators, discusses their strengths and limitations, and discusses indicators used in reference to four main topics relating to alcohol use and problems at the community level: alcohol use, patterns, and problems; alcohol availability; alcohol-related health outcomes/trauma; and alcohol-related crime and enforcement. It also reviews the challenges associated with collecting community indicator data, along with important innovations in the field that have contributed to better knowledge of how to collect and analyze community-level data on the impact of alcohol.