CONTENTS 4.1 Introduction..................................................................................... 50 4.2 Health
Risk...................................................................................... 514.2. 1 Global Burden of …

Alcohol use is a major risk factor for global burden of mortality and disease, and it has
become relatively more important over the past decades worldwide as the level of alcohol …

Economic development has been identified as an important influencing contributor to life
expectancies: wealthier countries have lower mortality rates and different causes of death …

Alcoholic beverages have been used in human societies since the beginning of recorded
history. The patterns of alcohol intake around the world are constantly evolving, and alcohol …

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, with its impact on both communicable and non-communicable diseases, is
considered as the third global public health priority. Alcohol ranked third among causes of ill …

Alcoholic beverages and the problems they engender have been familiar fixtures in human
societies since the beginning of recorded history. Because alcohol is causally related to …

1.1 Alcohol as a source of harm As we will briefly review, alcohol consumption is
responsible for a great deal of harm to health. This paper is concerned with the distribution …

Alcohol's adverse public health impact includes disease, injury, violence, disability, social
problems, psychiatric illness, drunk driving, drug use, unsafe sex, and premature death …

Background The health and economic consequences of alcohol consumption have been
assessed mainly in developed countries. This study aims to estimate health impact and …