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Activity Number:
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233
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, August 5, 2008 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Health Policy Statistics
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| Abstract - #301530 |
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Title:
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Alcohol Outlet Density and Alcohol Consumption in Los Angeles County and Southern Louisiana
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Author(s):
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Matthias Schonlau*+ and Deborah Cohen and Richard Scribner and Thomas A. Farley and Katherine Theall and Ricky N. Bluthenthal and Molly Scott
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Companies:
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RAND Corporation and RAND Corporation and Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and California State University and RAND Corporation
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Address:
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4570 Fifth Ave, Suite 600, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213,
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Keywords:
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acohol consumption ; alcohol outlets
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Abstract:
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We assessed the relationship between alcohol availability, as measured by the density of off-premise alcohol outlets, and alcohol consumption in Los Angeles county and southern Louisiana. Consumption information was collected through a telephone survey of 2881 households in Los Angeles County and pre-Katrina southern Louisiana nested within 220 census tracts. Respondents' addresses were geocoded and both neighborhood (census tracts and buffers of varying sizes) and individual (distance to the closest alcohol outlet) estimates of off-sale alcohol outlet density were computed. Alcohol outlet density was not associated with the percentage of people who were drinkers in either site. Alcohol outlet density was associated with the quantity of consumption among drinkers in Louisiana but not in Los Angeles.
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