World Health Organization. (2023) A health promotion approach for reducing youth exposure to alcogenic environments: snapshot series on alcohol policies and practice. Brief 12. Geneva: World Health Organization.
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The environment in which young people live, learn and play significantly affects their decisions about whether to consume alcohol. Environmental factors are the main risk factors driving alcohol consumption and related harm among young people. Environments that normalize alcohol consumption – termed alcogenic environments – include contexts with unregulated advertising and marketing of alcoholic beverages, higher alcohol outlet density, products designed to facilitate affordability and low prices of alcoholic beverages. A recent body of research evidence has emerged related to the measurement, functional significance and consequences of living in alcogenic environments. This includes findings on the complex and bidirectional interactions among alcohol acceptability, availability and affordability and how they create and perpetuate alcogenic environments. Comprehensive and enforced alcohol control policies are effective at delaying the age of onset and lowering alcohol prevalence and frequency among young people. Evidence consistently confirms the effectiveness of designing and implementing alcohol control policies that regulate upstream the drivers of alcogenic environment, including alcohol availability, acceptability and affordability. These policies need to be multipronged and address the complex interactions between these drivers and the local alcohol culture.
A Substance use and dependence > Personal history of substance use (pathway) > Initiation
B Substances > Substances in general
B Substances > Alcohol
F Concepts in psychology > Behaviour > Risk-taking behaviour
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Risk and protective factors > Risk factors
L Social psychology and related concepts > Availability, accessibility, and supply
L Social psychology and related concepts > Legal availability or accessibility
MA-ML Social science, culture and community > Sociocultural aspects of substance use > Societal attitude toward substance use / public opinion
MP-MR Policy, planning, economics, work and social services > Policy > Policy on substance use
T Demographic characteristics > Adolescent / youth (teenager / young person)
VA Geographic area > International
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