Esa Österberg

Biographic Data

ID6094663
NAMEEsa Österberg
GIVEN NAMESEsa
FAMILY NAMEÖsterberg
SIGNATUREOSTERBERG E
AFFILIATIONSFinnish Institute for Health and Welfare
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity

    Open AccessThomas F Babor, Kathryn Marie Graham et al.BOOKAlcohol : No Ordinary Commodity2022

    This book is about alcohol policy: why it is needed, how it is made, and the impact it has on health and well-being. It is written for both policymakers and alcohol scientists, as well as the many other people interested in bridging the gap between research and policy. It begins with a global review of epidemiological evidence showing why alcohol is not an ordinary commodity, and it ends with the conclusion that alcohol policies implemented withi…

  • Alcohol Retailing in Canadian and Nordic Contexts

    Open AccessNorman Giesbrecht, Esa ÖsterbergARTICLEContemporary Drug Problems2012References: 40

    This article involves a comparison of the Nordic alcohol-monopoly countries with Canadian provinces that have a tradition of off-premise alcohol retail monopolies. The aim of the article is to shed light on recent developments in Canadian and Nordic alcohol-retailing systems, and to propose a way forward for alcohol-control policy that involves balancing alcohol trade and damage-reduction agendas. The article first considers developments over the…

  • Trends in Alcohol Consumption and Violence in the Nordic Countries 1960–2000

    Open AccessEsa Österberg, Thomas KarlssonARTICLEContemporary Drug Problems2011References: 12

    Patterns of drinking, especially drinking to intoxication, play an important role in violent offenses, and there are studies that indicate a causal relationship between alcohol consumption and violence. The strength of this relationship is, however, culturally dependent, and the amount of alcohol drunk and patterns of drinking are not the only factors affecting violence rates. This article examines if increases in alcohol consumption in the Nordi…

  • Alcohol

    Thomas F Babor, Thomas Babor et al.BOOKAlcohol2010

    Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity - Research and Public Policy Second Edition is a collaborative effort by an international group of addiction scientists to improve the linkages between addiction science and alcohol policy. It presents the accumulated scientific knowledge on alcohol research that has a direct relevance to the development of alcohol policy on local, national, and international levels. It provides an objective analytical basis on whic…

  • Explaining change and stasis in alcohol consumption

    Robin Room, Esa Österberg et al.ARTICLEAddiction Research & Theory2009

    The term ‘saturation’ has often been used when alcohol consumption in a region stays the same despite there having been reason to expect an increase, e.g. after a decrease of taxation. However, the term ‘saturation’ has been used only descriptively, and in different ways. We therefore propose a wider-ranging framework for understanding and explaining trends in alcohol consumption, illustrating the operation of the factors with historical or conte…

  • Public opinion and community-based prevention of alcohol-related harms

    Marja Holmila, Heli Mustonen et al.ARTICLEAddiction Research & Theory2009

    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,…

  • Policy changes and effects on individual consumption

    Robin Room, Jurgen Rehm et al.ARTICLEAddiction Research & Theory2009

    Policy changes and effects on individual consumption: complexities of measurement and of influences

  • Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity

    Thomas F Babor, Thomas Babor et al.BOOKAlcohol2003

    From a public health perspective, alcohol is no ordinary consumer product. On a global level, it is a major contributor to disease, disability, and premature mortality. It also has an adverse impact on many aspects of social life. Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity – Research and Public Policy describes recent advances in alcohol research that have direct relevance for the development of effective alcohol policies at the local, national and internati…

  • Estimating Alcohol Consumption

    Open AccessNorman Giesbrecht, Thomas K Greenfield et al.ARTICLEContemporary Drug Problems2000References: 19

    There are several challenges to obtaining an accurate estimate of alcohol consumption and per capita consumption in a jurisdiction. There are difficulties in estimating the extent of illegal production and fraudulent transportation activities. In some jurisdictions there is extensive home production, which is difficult to estimate. There are challenges to estimating the amount of alcohol that is brought into a country or is taken out, primarily b…

  • Unrecorded Alcohol Consumption in Finland in the 1990s

    Open AccessEsa ÖsterbergARTICLEContemporary Drug Problems2000Cited by: 3References: 1

    This paper discusses different categories of unrecorded alcohol consumption and the data sources used in estimating their magnitude and developments. It also gives a brief overview of the developments and importance of different categories of unrecorded alcohol consumption in Finland in the post Second World War period until the 1990s, and a more detailed analysis of the developments in the 1990s. One of the main findings is that travelers' alcoh…