Alcohol in the city: wherever and whenever

Xisca Sureda; Víctor Carreño; Albert Espelt; Joan R Villalbí; Jamie Pearce; Manuel Franco

doi:10.1016/j.gaceta.2017.06.008

Alcohol in the city: wherever and whenever

Gac Sanit. 2018 Mar-Apr;32(2):172-175. doi: 10.1016/j.gaceta.2017.06.008. Epub 2017 Aug 10.

Authors

Xisca Sureda¹, Víctor Carreño², Albert Espelt³, Joan R Villalbí⁴, Jamie Pearce⁵, Manuel Franco⁶

Affiliations

¹ Social and Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Group, School of Medicine, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: francisca.sureda@uah.es.
² Social and Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Group, School of Medicine, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.
³ Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Spain; Departament de Psicobiologia i Metodologia en Ciències de la Salut, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain; Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Spain; Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain; Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; Grupo de Trabajo sobre Alcohol, Sociedad Española de Epidemiología, Barcelona, Spain.
⁵ Centre for Research on Environment Society and Health, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
⁶ Social and Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Group, School of Medicine, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain; Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

PMID: 28802515
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaceta.2017.06.008

Abstract

Alcohol urban environment has been associated with individual alcohol behaviors. We are constantly exposed to a wide variety of alcohol products, its marketing and promotion and signs of alcohol consumption that may influence alcohol-drinking behaviors. In this photo-essay, we include photographs that visually explain the exposure to alcohol in the urban streetscape of Madrid. These photographs show the pervasiveness of alcohol products in this city, which can be found everywhere at any time.

Keywords: Alcohol drinking; Alcohol promotion; Cities; Ciudades; Consumo de bebidas alcohólicas; Fotografías; Photographs; Promoción del alcohol; Salud urbana; Urban health.

MeSH terms

Advertising*
Alcohol Drinking* / economics
Alcohol Drinking* / epidemiology
Alcohol Drinking* / prevention & control
Alcohol Drinking* / psychology
Cities*
Health Policy
Humans
Marketing
Residence Characteristics
Spain / epidemiology
Time Factors
Urban Health*