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Booze barns: fuelling hazardous drinking in Australia?
Author(s) -
Howat Peter,
Binns Colin,
Jancey Jonine
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
health promotion journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 2201-1617
pISSN - 1036-1073
DOI - 10.1071/he13068
Subject(s) - library science , promotion (chess) , citation , political science , computer science , law , politics
Latest data confirm that drinking by Australians persists as a public health problem, despite a plateauing of consumption levels in recent years. In 2011-12, 19.5% of adults exceeded the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) guidelines (verified 5 August 2013) considered to be risky to their lifetime health by consuming more than two standard drinks on average per day. During the same period, 31% of men and 14% of women aged 15-17 years exceeded alcohol guidelines for single occasion risk in the previous year. When compared with other Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, Australia's per capita consumption of alcohol is above the OECD average of 9.1 L.