Background Alcohol consumption causes an estimated 4% of the global disease burden,
prompting goverments to impose regulations to mitigate the adverse effects of alcohol. To …

Aims There is little information on the extent to which African countries are addressing
alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harm, which suggests that evaluations of national …

Alcohol is one of the world's top three priority areas in public health. Even though only half
the global population drinks alcohol, it is the world's third leading cause of ill health and …

Background: This paper describes a new multicountry collaborative project to assess the
impact of alcohol control policy. Longitudinal surveys of drinkers in a number of participating …

Abstract Issues The last Soviet anti‐alcohol campaign of 1985 resulted in considerably
reduced alcohol consumption and saved thousands of lives. But once the campaign's …

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are about 2 billion people
worldwide consuming alcoholic beverages and 76.3 million with diagnosed alcohol use …

Alcohol is a well-known risk factor for premature morbidity and mortality. The per capita
alcohol consumption of the world's population rose from 5.5 L in 2005 to 6.4 L in 2010 and …

Per capita alcohol consumption in the WHO European Region, including the European
Union (‎ EU)‎, is the highest in the world, which results in proportionally higher levels of …

Aims To describe three aspects of the epidemiology of alcohol‐attributable deaths in
Europe, dose, demography and place, and to illustrate how such knowledge can better be …

Aims: To identify the policy implications of the magnitude and characteristics of alcohol
consumption and problems, viewed globally, and to summarize conclusions on the …