Gender Informed or Gender Ignored? Opportunities for Gender Transformative Approaches in Brief Alcohol Interventions on College Campuses

Lindsay Wolfson, Julie Stinson and Nancy Poole
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Lindsay Wolfson: Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, Vancouver, BC V6H 3N1, Canada
Julie Stinson: Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, Vancouver, BC V6H 3N1, Canada
Nancy Poole: Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, Vancouver, BC V6H 3N1, Canada

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 2, 1-17

Abstract: Brief alcohol interventions are an effective strategy for reducing harmful and risky alcohol use and misuse. Many effective brief alcohol interventions include information and advice about an individual’s alcohol use, changing their use, and assistance in developing strategies and goals to help reduce their use. Emerging research suggests that brief interventions can also be expanded to address multiple health outcomes; recognizing that the flexible nature of these approaches can be helpful in tailoring information to specific population groups. This scoping review synthesizes evidence on the inclusion of sex and gender in brief alcohol interventions on college campuses, highlighting available evidence on gender responsiveness in these interventions. Furthermore, this scoping review offers strategies on how brief alcohol interventions can be gender transformative, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of brief alcohol interventions as harm reduction and prevention strategies, and in promoting gender equity.

Keywords: alcohol; brief intervention; college campus; gender; gender transformative; gender equity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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