Aims To evaluate multinational patterns of gender‐and age‐specific alcohol consumption.
Design and participants Large general‐population surveys of men's and women's drinking …

Aims: To examine the consistency and/or variability of gender differences in drinking
behavior crossculturally. Design, setting, participants: Women's and men's responses in 16 …

Background To examine changes in men's and women's drinking in Norway over a 20-year
period, in order to learn whether such changes have led to gender convergence in alcohol …

Objective: To examine trends in the prevalence of monthly alcohol use and lifetime
drunkenness among 15 year olds in 20 European countries, the Russian Federation, Israel …

Abstract Introduction and Aims Gender and age patterns of drinking are important in guiding
country responses to harmful use of alcohol. This study undertook cross‐country analysis of …

Alcohol consumption is increasing in the United States, as is alcohol‐attributable mortality.
Historically, men have had higher rates of alcohol consumption than women, though …

Abstract Background In most Western countries, alcohol consumption continues to increase,
specifically among women and older adults. Insight into these trends may aid intervention …

Alcoholic beverages have been a part of social life for millennia, yet societies have always
found it difficult to understand or restrain their use. A central theme of this book is that to …

This paper provides an introduction to a series of articles reporting results from the EU
concerted action “Gender, Culture and Alcohol Problems: A Multi-national Study” which …

This chapter investigates to what extent differences between men's and women's drinking
behavior are consistent across societies, and to what extent gender differences in drinking …