Alcoholism - Amphora Project

The AMPHORA-3 EU-project studied the changes in alcohol consumption and related harm in 12 European countries during 1960-‐2008, using Time Series (TS) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) methods. Increase of urbanization, income, mothers’ age at their childbirths, and population ageing were shown to explain the greater part of the consumption changes.
Alcohol policy measures were also shown being influential in contributing to alcohol-‐problem reduction, if appropriately diversified according to each country/group of countries.

Table – European countries involved in the study

*Northern* *countries*	*Central countries*	*Western* *Countries*	*Eastern countries*	*Southern* *countries*
Sweden	Austria	UK	Hungary	France
Norway	Switzerland	Netherlands	Poland	Spain
Finland				Italy

AMPHORA-‐3 (2013) Work Package3: Report of an analysis of European alcohol-‐related cultural, social

and policy interactions and their impact on alcohol consumption and alcohol-‐related harm

(http://amphoraproject.net/w2box/data/Deliverables/AMPHORA_WP3_D3.2.pdf).

Allamani A., Voller F., Baccini M., Massini G. & Pepe P. (2014) Europe. An analysis of changes in the

consumption of alcoholic beverages: the interaction between consumption, related harms, contextual

factors and alcoholic beverage control policies. Substance Use & Misuse, 49: 1692-‐1715.

Allamani A., Voller F., Pepe P., Baccini M., Massini G. & Cipriani F. (2014) Italy between drinking culture

and control policies for alcoholic beverages. Substance Use & Misuse, 49: 1646-‐1664.

Knibbe R.A., Derickx M., Allamani A. and Massini G. (2014) Alcohol Consumption and its Related Harms in the Netherlands since 1960: Relationships With Planned and Unplanned Factors Substance Use & Misuse, 49: 1589-1600.