Alcohol's Collateral Damage: Childhood Exposure to Problem Drinkers and Subsequent Adult Mortality Risk

摘要: The importance of childhood circumstances, broadly defined, for shaping adult health and longevity is well established. But the significance one most prevalent adversities—exposure to problem drinkers—has been understudied from a sociological perspective remains poorly understood. We address this gap by drawing on cumulative inequality theory, using data 1988–2011 National Health Interview Survey-Linked Mortality Files, estimating Cox proportional hazards models examine relationship between exposure drinkers in mortality risk. Childhood common (nearly five individuals were exposed) elevates overall cause-specific Compared who had not lived with drinker during childhood, those done so suffered 17 percent higher risk death ( p