Marja Holmila
Biographic Data
| ID | 4174323 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marja Holmila |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marja |
| FAMILY NAME | Holmila |
| SIGNATURE | HOLMILA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Trusting and misleading. Parents’ and children’s communication and negotiation about alcohol as described by teenagers
Background: Typically, research on parents’ and children’s interactions around alcohol issues focuses on how parenting styles and parents’ examples affect teenager’s drinking habits. In this paper, we approach the theme from the youngsters’ perspective. We ask how teenagers describe the interaction on alcohol-related issues with their parents and how they would like their parents to act during these interactions.Data and methods: The article appl…
The feasibility of alcohol screening and interventions in emergency care
Background: Implementation of alcohol screening and brief intervention in emergency departments is inadequate and the evidence base more mixed than in primary health care (PHC). This comparison study investigates the feasibility of alcohol screening and interventions by nurses in emergency departments, seven based in PHC and two in specialised health care clinics. The aim is to analyse barriers to implementation in these two contexts.Methods: A q…
A typology of families with parental alcohol or drug abuse
Objectives To estimate the prevalence of parental alcohol abuse (PAA) or parental drug abuse (PDA), to compare families with PAA/PDA to non-PAA/PDA families, and to identify different types of families with PAA/PDA in terms of mental disorders in parents, family separation, financial difficulties and educational level. Methods Register-based data from a complete birth cohort of children born in 1991 in Finland (N = 62,751), and their biological p…
Conflicting norms on parental duties – Can parents party
Conflicting norms on parental duties – Can parents party?." Addiction Research & Theory, 19(5), pp. 406–407
Drinking in the presence of underage children
The ambivalent characteristic of the Finnish drinking culture is particularly evident in the context of family life. While drinking to intoxication in the home environment is widely tolerated, attitudes towards drinking in the presence of children appear negative, and there is broad political concern about harms to children. This study aims to both illuminate the attitudes towards drinking and the actual drinking behaviour of parents living with …
Public opinion and community-based prevention of alcohol-related harms
Aim: This article looks at alcohol policy opinions from the point of view of the possibilities and frames for creating local alcohol control policy. Local action against harms related to drinking is a compromise between different points of view, and the question of public support is important for community-based prevention. Data and analyses: The respondents of a postal questionnaire were asked if they supported different alcohol policy measures,…
Criticism of Drinking as Informal Social Control
The focus is on informal control of drinking, indicated by criticism of people in the social network on someone's alcohol consumption. Country and gender differences in the extent drinkers suffering from typical symptoms of heavy or prolonged alcohol use report informal control from others (reactive informal control), and country and gender differences in the extent comments on someone's drinking are (also) directed at those who do not suffer fro…
Informal Social Control of Drinking in Intimate Relationships—A Comparative Analysis
A number of studies have shown that pressure from others is an important element in decision making concerning entering treatment and that the pressure most often comes from one's partner. Is has also been found that, besides actual drinking habits, togetherness of drinking, i.e., proportion of drinking occasions spent together with partner, is reversely connected to pressure from partner to drink less. This article examines these relationships i…
Country Variations in Family Members' Informal Pressure to Drink Less
Examines how family members in 18 countries attempt to influence each other to drink less. Data come from the GENACIS (Gender, Alcohol and Culture: an International Study) dataset (overall sample 44, 115). The percentage of people who had experienced family member pressure to drink less were compared to country abstinence rate, mean drinking volume per drinker and other societal-level factors. Countries differed greatly on proportion of drinkers …
Gender differences in drinking
Aims The paper discusses the kinds of reasoning that have been presented as possible mechanisms and reasons for gender differences in alcohol consumption. Design and methods An overview of the existing literature from different countries is presented. Findings The existing studies provide a picture of great cultural variance in patterns of alcohol use among men and women. The gender differences in drinking behaviour have been shown to be linked w…
The role of the spouse in regulating one's drinking
This article examines the relationship between experiences of external influence from spouses and partners to influence one's drinking and one's own concern over drinking; whether spouse's control attempts and concern over one's own drinking are in congruence; how the level of drinking and the frequency of drinking to intoxication and the estimate of the spouse's level of drinking are related, for women and men belonging to different sociodemogra…
The Changing Field of Preventing Alcohol and Drug Problems in Finland
This paper analyzes the changing environment of community-based prevention and its evaluation research in Finland. The last ten years have changed the field considerably, and the field of preventive work is being reorganized on both the state level and the local level. The paper shows that growing expectations are directed to the local level, while the national-level policies are being dismantled. The development of community-based prevention res…
Community action on alcohol
Journal Article Community action on alcohol: experiences of the Lahti Project in Finland Get access MARJA HOLMILA MARJA HOLMILA Social Research Institute of Alcohol StudiesHelsinki, Finland Address for correspondence: M. Holmila Social Research Institute of Alcohol Studies POB 350 00101 Helsinki Finland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Health Promotion International, Volume 10, Issue 4, December 1995…
Life Style Issues - Debate between Men and Women in the Finnish Trade Union Movement
This article deals with the two-year way-of-life project arranged together with the Central Organization of the Finnish Trade Unions The underlying idea of the project was to seek ways in which the trade union movement might influence people's ways of life and to make it easier to discuss such matters in a trade union context The approach of the evaluation study was action researchThe focus of the project was m some respects at variance with the …
Informal Social Control of Drinking in Intimate Relationships—A Comparative Analysis
A number of studies have shown that pressure from others is an important element in decision making concerning entering treatment and that the pressure most often comes from one's partner. Is has also been found that, besides actual drinking habits, togetherness of drinking, i.e., proportion of drinking occasions spent together with partner, is reversely connected to pressure from partner to drink less. This article examines these relationships i…
Criticism of Drinking as Informal Social Control
The focus is on informal control of drinking, indicated by criticism of people in the social network on someone's alcohol consumption. Country and gender differences in the extent drinkers suffering from typical symptoms of heavy or prolonged alcohol use report informal control from others (reactive informal control), and country and gender differences in the extent comments on someone's drinking are (also) directed at those who do not suffer fro…
The Changing Field of Preventing Alcohol and Drug Problems in Finland
This paper analyzes the changing environment of community-based prevention and its evaluation research in Finland. The last ten years have changed the field considerably, and the field of preventive work is being reorganized on both the state level and the local level. The paper shows that growing expectations are directed to the local level, while the national-level policies are being dismantled. The development of community-based prevention res…
Life Style Issues - Debate between Men and Women in the Finnish Trade Union Movement
This article deals with the two-year way-of-life project arranged together with the Central Organization of the Finnish Trade Unions The underlying idea of the project was to seek ways in which the trade union movement might influence people's ways of life and to make it easier to discuss such matters in a trade union context The approach of the evaluation study was action researchThe focus of the project was m some respects at variance with the …
Community action on alcohol
Journal Article Community action on alcohol: experiences of the Lahti Project in Finland Get access MARJA HOLMILA MARJA HOLMILA Social Research Institute of Alcohol StudiesHelsinki, Finland Address for correspondence: M. Holmila Social Research Institute of Alcohol Studies POB 350 00101 Helsinki Finland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Health Promotion International, Volume 10, Issue 4, December 1995…
The Changing Field of Preventing Alcohol and Drug Problems in Finland
This paper analyzes the changing environment of community-based prevention and its evaluation research in Finland. The last ten years have changed the field considerably, and the field of preventive work is being reorganized on both the state level and the local level. The paper shows that growing expectations are directed to the local level, while the national-level policies are being dismantled. The development of community-based prevention res…
Gender differences in drinking
Aims The paper discusses the kinds of reasoning that have been presented as possible mechanisms and reasons for gender differences in alcohol consumption. Design and methods An overview of the existing literature from different countries is presented. Findings The existing studies provide a picture of great cultural variance in patterns of alcohol use among men and women. The gender differences in drinking behaviour have been shown to be linked w…
The role of the spouse in regulating one's drinking
This article examines the relationship between experiences of external influence from spouses and partners to influence one's drinking and one's own concern over drinking; whether spouse's control attempts and concern over one's own drinking are in congruence; how the level of drinking and the frequency of drinking to intoxication and the estimate of the spouse's level of drinking are related, for women and men belonging to different sociodemogra…
Public opinion and community-based prevention of alcohol-related harms
Aim: This article looks at alcohol policy opinions from the point of view of the possibilities and frames for creating local alcohol control policy. Local action against harms related to drinking is a compromise between different points of view, and the question of public support is important for community-based prevention. Data and analyses: The respondents of a postal questionnaire were asked if they supported different alcohol policy measures,…
Criticism of Drinking as Informal Social Control
The focus is on informal control of drinking, indicated by criticism of people in the social network on someone's alcohol consumption. Country and gender differences in the extent drinkers suffering from typical symptoms of heavy or prolonged alcohol use report informal control from others (reactive informal control), and country and gender differences in the extent comments on someone's drinking are (also) directed at those who do not suffer fro…
Informal Social Control of Drinking in Intimate Relationships—A Comparative Analysis
A number of studies have shown that pressure from others is an important element in decision making concerning entering treatment and that the pressure most often comes from one's partner. Is has also been found that, besides actual drinking habits, togetherness of drinking, i.e., proportion of drinking occasions spent together with partner, is reversely connected to pressure from partner to drink less. This article examines these relationships i…
Country Variations in Family Members' Informal Pressure to Drink Less
Examines how family members in 18 countries attempt to influence each other to drink less. Data come from the GENACIS (Gender, Alcohol and Culture: an International Study) dataset (overall sample 44, 115). The percentage of people who had experienced family member pressure to drink less were compared to country abstinence rate, mean drinking volume per drinker and other societal-level factors. Countries differed greatly on proportion of drinkers …
Conflicting norms on parental duties – Can parents party
Conflicting norms on parental duties – Can parents party?." Addiction Research & Theory, 19(5), pp. 406–407
Drinking in the presence of underage children
The ambivalent characteristic of the Finnish drinking culture is particularly evident in the context of family life. While drinking to intoxication in the home environment is widely tolerated, attitudes towards drinking in the presence of children appear negative, and there is broad political concern about harms to children. This study aims to both illuminate the attitudes towards drinking and the actual drinking behaviour of parents living with …
A typology of families with parental alcohol or drug abuse
Objectives To estimate the prevalence of parental alcohol abuse (PAA) or parental drug abuse (PDA), to compare families with PAA/PDA to non-PAA/PDA families, and to identify different types of families with PAA/PDA in terms of mental disorders in parents, family separation, financial difficulties and educational level. Methods Register-based data from a complete birth cohort of children born in 1991 in Finland (N = 62,751), and their biological p…
Trusting and misleading. Parents’ and children’s communication and negotiation about alcohol as described by teenagers
Background: Typically, research on parents’ and children’s interactions around alcohol issues focuses on how parenting styles and parents’ examples affect teenager’s drinking habits. In this paper, we approach the theme from the youngsters’ perspective. We ask how teenagers describe the interaction on alcohol-related issues with their parents and how they would like their parents to act during these interactions.Data and methods: The article appl…
The feasibility of alcohol screening and interventions in emergency care
Background: Implementation of alcohol screening and brief intervention in emergency departments is inadequate and the evidence base more mixed than in primary health care (PHC). This comparison study investigates the feasibility of alcohol screening and interventions by nurses in emergency departments, seven based in PHC and two in specialised health care clinics. The aim is to analyse barriers to implementation in these two contexts.Methods: A q…
Psychology (11 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Environmental health (9 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (5 works) · Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works)