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Kim Bloomfield

Kim Bloomfield

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Overview

Kim Bloomfield is a researcher affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark, with a primary focus on medicine and psychology. Their work is concentrated on epidemiology, pathology and forensic medicine, general health professions, clinical psychology, and social psychology.

The main topics addressed in their research include substance abuse treatment and outcomes, alcohol consumption and health effects, homelessness and social issues, COVID-19 and mental health, cannabis and cannabinoid research, nutritional studies and diet, and prenatal substance exposure effects.

Bloomfield has contributed to multiple research articles published in various academic journals. Among the recent papers are:

  • Understanding the alcohol-harm paradox: what next?, 2020, The Lancet Public Health
  • Alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe: a large-scale cross-sectional study in 21 countries, 2021, Addiction
  • Use of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and other substances during the first wave of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Europe: a survey on 36,000 European substance users, 2021, Substance Abuse Treatment Prevention and Policy
  • Changes in Alcohol Consumption during the COVID-19 Pandemic Are Dependent on Initial Consumption Level: Findings from Eight European Countries, 2021, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Cross-sectional surveys of financial harm associated with others' drinking in 15 countries: Unequal effects on women?, 2020, Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Bloomfield has frequently published in Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, Drug and Alcohol Review, Addiction, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, and Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

  • Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
  • Drug and Alcohol Review
  • Addiction
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence

The researcher has collaborated extensively with several co-authors including Bagga Bjerge, Kristine Rømer Thomsen, Lotte Vallentin-Holbech, Carolin Kilian, and Jakob Manthey.

  • Bagga Bjerge
  • Kristine Rømer Thomsen
  • Lotte Vallentin-Holbech
  • Carolin Kilian
  • Jakob Manthey

In addition to journal articles, Kim Bloomfield has published a book titled Alkohol - en del af dansk kultur på godt og ondt in 2023 through Aarhus University Press.

Best Publications

  • Social inequalities in alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems in the study countries of the EU concerted action 'gender, culture and alcohol problems: a multi-national study'

    Kim Bloomfield;Ulrike Grittner;Stephanie Kramer;Gerhard Gmel

  • Do neighborhoods affect individual mortality? A systematic review and meta-analysis of multilevel studies.

    Mathias Meijer;Jeannette Röhl;Kim Bloomfield;Kim Bloomfield;Kim Bloomfield;Ulrike Grittner

  • International comparisons of alcohol consumption.

    K. Bloomfield;Timothy R. Stockwell;Gerhard Gmel;Nina Rehn

  • Alcohol consumption and ethyl carbamate

    Naomi Allen;Lucy M. Anderson;Frederick A. Beland;Jacques Bénichou

  • Drinking patterns and their gender differences in Europe.

    Pia Mäkelä;Gerhard Gmel;Ulrike Grittner;Hervé Kuendig

  • Social inequalities and gender differences in the experience of alcohol-related problems.

    Ulrike Grittner;Sandra Kuntsche;Kathryn Graham;Kim Bloomfield;Kim Bloomfield

  • Alcoholics Anonymous as a Mutual-Help Movement: a Study in Eight Societies

    K Mäkelä;I Arminen;K Bloomfield;I Eisenbach-Stangl

  • Alcohol consumption and social inequality at the individual and country levels--results from an international study.

    Ulrike Grittner;Sandra Kuntsche;Gerhard Gmel;Kim Bloomfield;Kim Bloomfield

  • A comparison of alcohol consumption between lesbians and heterosexual women in an urban population.

    Kim Bloomfield

  • The influence of societal level factors on men's and women's alcohol consumption and alcohol problems.

    Giora Rahav;Richard Wilsnack;Kim Bloomfield;Gerhard Gmel

  • Gender Differences in Drinking Patterns in Nine European Countries: Descriptive Findings.

    Salme Ahlström;Kim Bloomfield;Ronald Knibbe

  • Investigating Gender Convergence in Alcohol Consumption in Finland, Germany, The Netherlands, and Switzerland: A Repeated Survey Analysis.

    Kim Bloomfield;Gerhard Gmel;Rudie Neve;Heli Mustonen

  • Alcohol Consumption Estimates in Surveys in Europe: Comparability and Sensitivity for Gender Differences.

    Ronald A. Knibbe;Kim Bloomfield

  • Alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe: a large-scale cross-sectional study in 21 countries.

    Carolin Kilian;Jürgen Rehm;Peter Allebeck;Fleur Braddick;Fleur Braddick

  • Prevalence of alcohol use and the association between onset of use and alcohol-related problems in a general population sample in Germany.

    Ludwig Kraus;K. I. M. Bloomfield;Rita Augustin;Anneke Reese

  • Drinking Cultures and the Position of Women in Nine European Countries.

    Allaman Allamani;Fabio Voller;Ludek Kubicka;Kim Bloomfield

  • Alcohol consumption and attitudes towards banning alcohol sales on campus among European university students.

    Christiane Stock;Rafael T. Mikolajczyk;K. Bloomfield;Annette E. Maxwell

  • Gender and cultural differences in the association between family roles, social stratification, and alcohol use: a European cross-cultural analysis.

    Sandra Kuntsche;Gerhard Gmel;Ronald A. Knibbe;Hervé Kuendig

  • INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL ISSUE 'GENDER, CULTURE AND ALCOHOL PROBLEMS: A MULTI-NATIONAL STUDY'

    Kim Bloomfield;Gerhard Gmel;Sharon Wilsnack

  • Changes in volume of drinking after changes in alcohol taxes and travellers' allowances: results from a panel study.

    Pia Mäkelä;Kim Bloomfield;Nina-Katri Gustafsson;Petri Huhtanen

  • Use of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and other substances during the first wave of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Europe: a survey on 36,000 European substance users.

    Jakob Manthey;Jakob Manthey;Jakob Manthey;Carolin Kilian;Sinclair Carr;Miroslav Bartak

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrike Grittner
Ulrike Grittner Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Gerhard Gmel
Gerhard Gmel University of Lausanne
Robin Room
Robin Room La Trobe University
Sharon C. Wilsnack
Sharon C. Wilsnack University of North Dakota
Ludwig Kraus
Ludwig Kraus IFT Institut für Therapieforschung
Morten Hesse
Morten Hesse Aarhus University
Thomas K. Greenfield
Thomas K. Greenfield Alcohol Research Group
Kathryn Graham
Kathryn Graham Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Ola Ekholm
Ola Ekholm University of Southern Denmark
Ronald A. Knibbe
Ronald A. Knibbe Maastricht University

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