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 …

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 …

Alcohol has been identified as one of the most important risk factors in the burden
experienced as a result of disease. The objective of the present contribution is to establish a …

Aim: To make quantitative estimates of the burden of disease attributable to alcohol in the
year 2000 on a global basis. Design: Secondary data analysis. Measurements: Two …

Aims To describe the volume of alcohol consumption and patterns of drinking in the World
Health Organization (WHO) European regions in 2002 and to estimate quantitatively the …

During the 20th century alcohol and alcoholism have emerged as a problem with global
health implications. In Westernized countries> or= 50% of adults can be classified as alcohol …

This presentation describes the alcohol-related global burden of disease by geographic
region, sex and age, in comparison to other substance abuse related burdens. The method …

Objectives: This analysis estimated alcohol-attributable burden of disease for Switzerland.
Methods: Exposure distributions were taken from the 2002 Swiss Health Survey and …

Assessing alcohol-associated risks based on alcohol consumption Assessing alcohol-associated
risks based on alcohol consumption Abstract Per capita alcohol consumption is one indirect …

In the World Health Organization (WHO) Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) study (Ezzati
et al., 2004; Lopez et al., 2006; for details on alcohol, see Rehm et al., 2004), alcohol proved …