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Author: Ranker, Lynsie Renee
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1. Ranker, Lynsie Renee
Relationships of Policy and Place with Substance Use, Alcohol Misuse, and Other Risk Behaviors
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Epidemiology SPH, Boston University, 2022
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)
Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Geocoded Data; State-Level Data/Policy; Substance Use

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Substance use has been linked to adverse health and social costs, including morbidity and mortality. Substance use patterns are driven not only by individual-level determinants, but also by social, political and ecological factors. Given this inter-connected web, further exploration into the interactions between individuals and their environments may help inform strategies to intervene and reduce substance use and related risk behaviors. The purpose of this dissertation was to examine the dimensions of place in determining an individual's substance use behaviors.

In the first two studies, we explored the policy dimension of an individual's environment, specifically how the state-level policy environment shapes frequency of alcohol use. We used data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) cohort, a nationally representative, longitudinal sample of emerging adults.

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Ranker, Lynsie Renee. Relationships of Policy and Place with Substance Use, Alcohol Misuse, and Other Risk Behaviors. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Epidemiology SPH, Boston University, 2022.