What is it about?
This article highlights How the decline in youth drinking affects low-income countries have been neglected. Declining youth drinking in high-income countries engenders aggressive marketing in low-income countries. Researchers should simultaneously globalize studies on youth drinking behaviours. Findings of such studies will facilitate interventions in high/low-income nations.
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Why is it important?
The article is important because without commensurate attempts to examine young people's drinking behaviours/trends worldwide simultaneously, public and/or global health may be harmed globally.
Perspectives
The article highlights how declining youth drinking in high-income countries may impact public health in low-income countries. Second, it highlights the necessity for research to examine youth drinking behaviours simultaneously worldwide. The declining drinking trends among young people in high-income countries have occurred simultaneously with global alcohol corporations being more aggressive in low-income countries like Nigeria.
Dr Emeka W. Dumbili
University College Dublin
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This page is a summary of: Decline in youth drinking in high-income settings: Implications for public health in low-income countries, International Journal of Drug Policy, April 2023, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.103975.
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