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Michael Livingston

Michael Livingston

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
52
Citations
10291
World Ranking
2450
National Ranking
175

Overview

Michael Livingston is affiliated with La Trobe University in Australia and is an active researcher within the fields of Medicine and Health Professions. Their research output includes substantial contributions to Epidemiology, General Health Professions, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Clinical Psychology, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's publications primarily focus on topics related to substance use, health outcomes, and social issues. Key areas of study include:

  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Gambling Behavior and Treatments
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation

Michael Livingston has been published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Drug and Alcohol Review
  • Addiction
  • International Journal of Drug Policy
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

A number of recent significant papers demonstrate the scope of their research interests. These include:

  • "Alcohol and the Risk of Injury" (2021, Nutrients)
  • "Trends in adolescent drinking across 39 high-income countries: exploring the timing and magnitude of decline" (2020, European Journal of Public Health)
  • "Purchasing, consumption, demographic and socioeconomic variables associated with shifts in alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic" (2020, Drug and Alcohol Review)
  • "Declining drinking among adolescents: Are we seeing a denormalisation of drinking and a normalisation of non-drinking?" (2021, Addiction)
  • "Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity-a summary of the third edition" (2022, Addiction)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Sarah Callinan
  • Amy Pennay
  • Paul Dietze
  • Nicholas Taylor
  • Robin Room

In addition to journal articles, Michael Livingston has contributed to book publications. One such work is "Álcool: uma mercadoria nada comum: pesquisa e políticas públicas" (2023), published by Dialética eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Alcohol: No ordinary commodity: Research and public policy, 2nd ed.

    Thomas Babor;Raul Caetano;Sally Casswell;Griffith Edwards

  • Changing the density of alcohol outlets to reduce alcohol-related problems.

    Michael Livingston;Tanya Chikritzhs;Robin Room;Robin Room

  • Transitions and turning points: examining the links between child maltreatment and juvenile offending.

    Anna Louise Stewart;Michael John Livingston;Susan Michelle Dennison

  • Underreporting in Alcohol Surveys: Whose Drinking Is Underestimated?

    Michael John Livingston;Sarah Callinan

  • Surveying the range and magnitude of alcohol's harm to others in Australia.

    Anne-Maree Laslett;Robin Gerald Walden Room;Robin Gerald Walden Room;Jason Ferris;Jason Ferris;Claire Wilkinson

  • Alcohol outlet density and assault: a spatial analysis.

    Michael Livingston

  • A longitudinal analysis of alcohol outlet density and domestic violence.

    Michael Livingston

  • Accuracy of Self-Reported Drinking: Observational Verification of ‘Last Occasion’ Drink Estimates of Young Adults

    Jeremy Northcote;Jeremy Northcote;Michael Livingston;Michael Livingston

  • Defining “drinking culture”: A critical review of its meaning and connotation in social research on alcohol problems

    Michael Savic;Robin Room;Janette Mugavin;Amy Pennay

  • A Longitudinal Analysis of Alcohol Outlet Density and Assault

    Michael Livingston

  • Alcohol : No Ordinary Commodity – a summary of the second edition

    T. Babor;R. Caetano;S. Casswell;G. Edwards

  • The drinker's effect on the social environment: a conceptual framework for studying alcohol's harm to others.

    Robin Room;Jason Ferris;Anne-Marie Laslett;Michael Livingston

  • Alcohol outlet density and harm: comparing the impacts on violence and chronic harms.

    Michael Livingston

  • The Range and Magnitude of Alcohol’s Harm to Others

    Anne-Marie Laslett;Paul Catalano;Tanya Chikritzhs;Caroline Dale

  • Trends in non-drinking among Australian adolescents.

    Michael Livingston

  • Alcohol and the Risk of Injury.

    Tanya Chikritzhs;Michael Livingston;Michael Livingston

  • Estimating under‐ and over‐reporting of drinking in national surveys of alcohol consumption: identification of consistent biases across four English‐speaking countries

    Tim Stockwell;Jinhui Zhao;Thomas Greenfield;Jessica Li

  • Individual and community correlates of young people's high-risk drinking in Victoria, Australia

    Michael Livingston;Anne-Maree Laslett;Paul Mark Dietze;Paul Mark Dietze

  • Understanding trends in Australian alcohol consumption-an age-period-cohort model

    Michael Livingston;Michael Livingston;Jonas Raninen;Tim N Slade;Wendy Swift

  • Impacts of changes to trading hours of liquor licences on alcohol-related harm: a systematic review 2005-2015

    Claire Wilkinson;Michael Livingston;Robin Room

  • Young people are drinking less: It is time to find out why

    Amy Pennay;Amy Pennay;Michael Livingston;Michael Livingston;Sarah MacLean;Sarah MacLean

  • Multilevel Analysis for Applied Research—It's Just Regression!

    Michael Livingston

Frequent Co-Authors

Robin Room
Robin Room La Trobe University
Jason Ferris
Jason Ferris University of Queensland
Emmanuel Kuntsche
Emmanuel Kuntsche La Trobe University
Kathryn Graham
Kathryn Graham Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Ingeborg Rossow
Ingeborg Rossow Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Ross Homel
Ross Homel Griffith University
Harold D. Holder
Harold D. Holder Pacific Institute
Sally Casswell
Sally Casswell Massey University
Tanya Chikritzhs
Tanya Chikritzhs Curtin University
Norman Giesbrecht
Norman Giesbrecht Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

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