The cost of harmful alcohol use in South Africa

RG Matzopoulos, S Truen, B Bowman… - South African Medical …, 2014 - ajol.info
… of total costs.[5] We applied a prevalence-based approach that estimates current costs of
past harmful alcohol use, rather than an incidence-based approach that includes future costs of …

Global burden of disease and injury and economic cost attributable to alcohol use and alcohol-use disorders

J Rehm, C Mathers, S Popova, M Thavorncharoensap… - The lancet, 2009 - thelancet.com
… to alcohol, we estimate attributable fractions by sex, age, and WHO region. Additionally, we
compare social costs of alcohol … In ICD 10, harmful use is the second category of alcohol-use

Reducing the global burden of hazardous alcohol use: a comparative cost-effectiveness analysis.

D Chisholm, J Rehm, M Van Ommeren… - … of studies on alcohol, 2004 - jsad.com
costs to effects; I$1,368) but not elsewhere. RBT was the most cost-effective strategy where
rates of hazardous alcohol use … Brief advice was most cost effective in African subregion AfrD …

Evaluating alcohol industry action to reduce the harmful use of alcohol

P Anderson, J Rehm - Alcohol and Alcoholism, 2016 - academic.oup.com
… and advice and treatment programmes for harmful alcohol use. Ideally, there should be …
While this seems not possible given that such randomized trials have very high costs and …

[HTML][HTML] Harmful alcohol use

G Gmel, J Rehm - Alcohol Research & Health, 2003 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… The DSM–IV defines alcohol abuse as alcohol use that results in: … In 1998, alcohol abuse
and dependence cost the United States an estimated $97.7 billion, primarily as a result of …

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of policies and programmes to reduce the harm caused by alcohol

P Anderson, D Chisholm, DC Fuhr - The lancet, 2009 - thelancet.com
cost attributable to alcohol use and alcohol-use disorders, noting that 4·6% of all ill health
and premature death worldwide is due to alcohol, with … burden per litre of alcohol than higher-…

The cost of harmful alcohol use in South Africa: A commentary

M Murray, GDI Barr - SAMJ: South African Medical Journal, 2022 - scielo.org.za
… used when quantifying the total harmful cost of alcohol to South African (SA… cost to be in
the region of ZAR250bn per year using 2009 prices. Unfortunately, through repetitive quoted use

The burden and cost of disorders of the brain in Europe with the inclusion of harmful alcohol use and nicotine addiction

T Effertz, K Mann - European Neuropsychopharmacology, 2013 - Elsevier
… Furthermore, we attributed costs to harmful alcohol use. Our DALY calculations for alcohol
SUDs in Germany are quite close to the WHO estimation and thus might be treated as a …

[HTML][HTML] Economic evaluation of internet-based interventions for harmful alcohol use alongside a pragmatic randomized controlled trial

M Blankers, U Nabitz, F Smit, MWJ Koeter… - Journal of medical …, 2012 - jmir.org
… We present an economic evaluation assessing the cost effectiveness and cost utility of IT
compared with IS for harmful alcohol use. Recently, studies have been published on the cost

[HTML][HTML] Digital alcohol interventions could be part of the societal response to harmful consumption, but we know little about their long-term costs and health outcomes

K Ulfsdotter Gunnarsson, M Henriksson… - Journal of medical …, 2024 - jmir.org
… excise taxes on alcoholic beverages and restrictions on the retail availability of alcohol.
Provisioning of psychosocial interventions for persons with harmful alcohol use is also included …