The alcohol-harm paradox (ie, the observation that people of low socioeconomic status
(SES) tend to experience greater alcohol-related harm than those of high SES, even when …

Background Alcohol and drug use can have negative consequences on the health,
economy, productivity, and social aspects of communities. We aimed to use data from the …

Alcohol has long been known as a risk factor for disease. The 1990 Global Burden of
Disease (GBD) study (Murray and Lopez 1996a, 1996b) identified alcohol as one of the …

Background Although moderate alcohol consumption has been shown to confer a protective
effect for specific diseases, current societal patterns of alcohol use impose a huge health …

Background and aims Estimated alcohol consumption from national self‐report surveys is
often only 30–40% of official estimates based on sales or taxation data. Global burden of …

The use of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs entails considerable burden of disease: in 2000,
about 4% of the global burden as measured in disability adjusted life years was attributable …

Population ageing is a global challenge that is becoming alarming in low-income and
middle-income countries. 1 Despite serious economic, social, and health implications, most …

Aim: To estimate the burden of death, disease, and disability attributable to alcohol
consumption in New Zealand. Methods: We applied the World Health Organization's …

Abstract Since the original Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) for alcohol consumption as
part of the Global Burden of Disease Study for 1990, there had been regular updates of …

Aims As part of a larger study to estimate the global burden of disease and injury attributable
to alcohol: to evaluate the evidence for a causal impact of average volume of alcohol …