Determinants of Health
The Individual human development of youth can also be significantly affected by excessive alcohol consumption, as it reduces the absorption of nutrients, which can contribute to malnutrition. If an individual does not receive the essential nutrients required for physical development then the body systems such as the skeletal and muscular system may not develop optimally.
Risk factor determinants:
Social Environment: Parenting, Family Environment, and Peers:
If individuals are brought up amongst an environment full of alcohol, they are substantially more likely to experiment with Alcohol at a younger age. From a young age if children are surrounded by parents, friends and family consuming alcoholic beverages a sense of curiosity to alcohol develops in them. Once they become teenagers, many peers around them will begin to experiment (some earlier than others) if amongst the wrong group of friends they could very easily pressure and persuade the individual into trying it and undertaking binge drinking.
Biological: Genetic Risk Factors:
Children of alcoholics are significantly more likely than children of nonalcoholics to initiate drinking during adolescence and experiment with binge drinking and potentially develop alcoholism later in life, but the relative influences of environment and genetics have not been determined and vary amongst people.
Protective factor determinants:
Protective factors are factors in a young person's life that promote positive health and wellbeing. They may reduce the effect of a risk factor present in a young person's life and minimise the desire to abuse alcohol or consume at risky levels which increase harm.
Social Environment: Strong bonds and respectful relationships with adults:
Strong bonds and relationships allow young people to develop strong personal support networks for guidance and support in both good and times of need. Also giving them the ability to cope with challenges and feel the strength to say no can reduce a young person's desire to use alcohol, and excessively consume it as well as increasing their chances of making positive decisions in a safe environment.
Social Environment: Clear boundaries and restrictions:
Young individuals who live in environments with fewer boundaries and restrictions often are more likely to take risks and may be more likely to access and consume alcohol in binge like ways. Youth with clear boundaries and restrictions have reduced access to alcohol in turn limiting their opportunity for alcohol abuse. They are more likely to make positive decisions in relation to alcohol use both now and later on in life.
Risk factor determinants:
Social Environment: Parenting, Family Environment, and Peers:
If individuals are brought up amongst an environment full of alcohol, they are substantially more likely to experiment with Alcohol at a younger age. From a young age if children are surrounded by parents, friends and family consuming alcoholic beverages a sense of curiosity to alcohol develops in them. Once they become teenagers, many peers around them will begin to experiment (some earlier than others) if amongst the wrong group of friends they could very easily pressure and persuade the individual into trying it and undertaking binge drinking.
Biological: Genetic Risk Factors:
Children of alcoholics are significantly more likely than children of nonalcoholics to initiate drinking during adolescence and experiment with binge drinking and potentially develop alcoholism later in life, but the relative influences of environment and genetics have not been determined and vary amongst people.
Protective factor determinants:
Protective factors are factors in a young person's life that promote positive health and wellbeing. They may reduce the effect of a risk factor present in a young person's life and minimise the desire to abuse alcohol or consume at risky levels which increase harm.
Social Environment: Strong bonds and respectful relationships with adults:
Strong bonds and relationships allow young people to develop strong personal support networks for guidance and support in both good and times of need. Also giving them the ability to cope with challenges and feel the strength to say no can reduce a young person's desire to use alcohol, and excessively consume it as well as increasing their chances of making positive decisions in a safe environment.
Social Environment: Clear boundaries and restrictions:
Young individuals who live in environments with fewer boundaries and restrictions often are more likely to take risks and may be more likely to access and consume alcohol in binge like ways. Youth with clear boundaries and restrictions have reduced access to alcohol in turn limiting their opportunity for alcohol abuse. They are more likely to make positive decisions in relation to alcohol use both now and later on in life.