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ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2013

Alcohol and smoking consumption behaviours in older Australian adults: prevalence, period and socio-demographic differentials in the DYNOPTA sample.

Richard A Burns, Carole L Birrell, David Steel, Paul Mitchell, Kaarin J Anstey

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Article in Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Richard A BurnsCentre for Research on Ageing, Health and Wellbeing, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia. richard.burns@anu.edu.au
Carole L Birrell
David Steel
Paul Mitchell
Kaarin J Anstey
Australian National University · AUUniversity of Wollongong · AUUniversity of Sydney · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeAlcohol consumption and tobacco use are key risk factors for chronic disease and health burden across the adult lifespan. We estimate the prevalence of alcohol consumption and smoking by age and time period in adults from mid to old age.

methodsParticipants (n = 50,652) were drawn from the Dynamic Analyses to Optimise Ageing (DYNOPTA) project and were compared with Australian National Health Survey data. Alcohol and smoking consumption DYNOPTA data were weighted to the estimated resident population of the sampling frame for each contributing study according to age and sex distributions within major statistical regions.

resultsComparisons in the rates of smoking and alcohol consumption between DYNOPTA and other national surveys were comparable. Males were more likely to be (RRR = 2.12) or have been smokers (RRR = 2.97), whilst females were more likely to be non-drinkers (RRR = 2.52). Period effects were also identified; higher prevalence rates in consumption of alcohol (RRR = 3.21) and smoking (RRR = 1.67) for those contributing studies from the early 1990's, in comparison with those studies from the latter half of the decade, were reported.

conclusionsOver a decade, prevalence rates for high-risk consumption of alcohol and current smoking behaviour declined and suggest the possible impact of government health policy, with targeted-health policies, that included bans on public smoking, and a toughening of legislation against alcohol-related crime.

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Health BehaviorAgedAged, 80 and overAlcohol DrinkingAustraliaFemaleHealth PolicyHealth SurveysHumansMaleMiddle AgedPrevalenceRisk FactorsSex DistributionSmokingSocioeconomic Factors

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