Alcohol drinking patterns among Jewish and Arab men and women in Israel.

Neumark, Yehuda; Rahav, Giora; Teichman, Meir; Hasin, Deborah S.

doi:10.15288/jsa.2001.62.443

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“…Therefore, a lower rate of alcohol consumption as compared to the Jewish population, as well as less of a "western" life style, may play a role in the results. Sun exposure is an important cause in lip cancer and the darker skin of Arabs may contribute to the lower rate of (Neumark et al, 2001), (Bar et al, 1990), (Israeli Ministry of Health., 2009). It is also recognized that exposure to the sun is a characteristic occupational hazard of men.…”

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“…Males demonstrated, throughout, significantly higher incidence rates than females. This might be explained by the differences in the combined risk factor of smoking and exposure to the sun (Neumark et al, 2001), (Bar et al, 1990). It has been documented that Arab males smoke 6 times more than females (Barchana, 2004) and women are exposed less to the sun.…”

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“…Israeli Arab society is recognized as a developing society (Gigron and Bar, 2004) and characterized by poverty, high tobacco use and low percentage of alcohol consumption that has increased over recent decades (Neumark et al, 2001), (Bar et al, 1990). This society is also characterized by a high level of sun exposure as all the Israeli residents.…”

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“…Development of the alcohol modules was also informed by prior collaboration by two of the authors (D.H., E.A.) with Israeli investigators on national surveys of drinking and related behaviors (Aharonovich et al, 2001;Canino et al, 1999;Hasin et al, 1998;Neumark et al, 2001), providing familiarity with Israeli survey measures of drinking. The AUDADIS alcohol consumption and diagnostic modules as used in Hebrew and Russian in Israel have been reported previously (Hasin et al, 2002a(Hasin et al, , 2002bSpivak et al, 2007), including results of an interrater reliability study showing excellent reliability of alcohol dependence severity (Hasin et al, 2002a).…”

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Alcohol Use Disorders and Perceived Drinking Norms: Ethnic Differences in Israeli Adults

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ABSTRACT. Objective: Individuals' perceptions of drinking acceptability in their society (perceived injunctive drinking norms) are widely assumed to explain ethnic group differences in drinking and alcohol use disorders (AUDs), but this has never been formally tested. Immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union (FSU) are more likely to drink and report AUD symptoms than other Israelis. We tested perceived drinking norms as a mediator of differences between FSU immigrants and other Israelis in drinking and AUDs. Method: Adult household residents (N = 1,349) selected from the Israeli population register were assessed with a structured interview measuring drinking, AUD symptoms, and perceived drinking norms. Regression analyses were used to produce odds ratios (OR) and risk ratios (RR) and 95% confi dence intervals (CI) to test differences between FSU immigrants and other Israelis on binary and graded outcomes. , and perceive more permissive drinking norms (p < .0001). For all four drinking variables, the FSU group effect was at least partially mediated by perceived drinking norms. Conclusions: This is the fi rst demonstration that drinking norms mediate ethnic differences in AUDs. This work contributes to understanding ethnic group differences in drinking and AUDs, potentially informing etiologic research and public policy aimed at reducing alcohol-related harm. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 73, 981-990, 2012)

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“…However, the rates of alcohol consumption and drinking patterns differ significantly across the 2 main ethno-cultural groups in Israel. Past research based on self-reported alcohol use data in Israel [19,20,21] has found that Arabs are more likely than the majority population to abstain from alcohol use. In other words, the level of integration of alcohol in everyday life has been found to be relatively low in Arab populations.…”

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Cross-Cultural Validity in Self-Reported Alcohol Use

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Background and Aim: Little evidence is available on whether respondents from divergent sociocultural populations report alcohol consumption in systematically similar ways. Therefore, this study examined whether the validity of self-reported alcohol use differed between Arab and Jewish Israeli pub patrons. Methods: The analytical sample consisted of 227 Arab and 900 Jewish Israeli pub patrons who were approached as they left pubs and asked to record their Breath Alcohol Content (BrAC) value and complete a questionnaire that probed into their alcohol use. Validity of self-reported alcohol use across the 2 groups was examined by testing the discrepancy in concordance between the self-reported number of drinks and BrAC scores through simple Pearson correlations and by performing a multi-group measurement invariance (MI) comparison. Results: The Pearson correlation between the self-reported number of drinks and BrAC by the ethno-cultural group was almost identical across groups (Jews: r = 0.47, p < 0.01, df = 898; Arabs: r = 0.42, p < 0.01, df = 225). MI test results further confirmed that the factor loadings of the 2 drinking measures are similar across the 2 ethno-cultural groups. Conclusions: Self-reported alcohol consumption gives cross-culturally valid and acceptable estimates of alcohol consumption in this sample of Israeli Arabs and Jews.

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Alcohol drinking patterns among Jewish and Arab men and women in Israel.

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Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer Among the Arab Population in israel from 1970 to 2006

Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer Among the Arab Population in israel from 1970 to 2006

Alcohol Use Disorders and Perceived Drinking Norms: Ethnic Differences in Israeli Adults

Cross-Cultural Validity in Self-Reported Alcohol Use

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