Friday, February 11, 2011

[EQ] Global Status report on alcohol and health 2011

Global Status report on alcohol and health 2011

World Health Organization – WHO

Available online PDF [85p.] at: http://bit.ly/fc5Ms9

“…The Global status report on alcohol and health (2011) presents a comprehensive perspective on the global, regional and country consumption of alcohol, patterns of drinking, health consequences and policy responses in Member States. It represents a continuing effort by the World Health Organization (WHO) to support Member States in collecting information in order to assist them in their efforts to reduce the harmful use of alcohol, and its health and social consequences….”

Country profiles by country name: http://bit.ly/hJ9FbB

Country profiles by WHO Region:

·         Africa pdf, 420kb

·         The Americas pdf, 358kb

·         Eastern Mediterranean pdf, 337kb

·         Europe pdf, 646kb

·         South-East Asia pdf, 999kb

·         Western Pacific pdf, 1.97Mb

CONTENTS

Introduction

1. Consumption

1.1 How much do people drink? 3

1.1.1 Total adult per capita consumption 4

1.1.2 Unrecorded alcohol consumption 4

1.1.3 Adult per capita consumption and income of countries 6

1.1.4 Most consumed alcoholic beverages 6

1.2 Changes in alcohol consumption over time 8

1.2.1 Trends in adult per capita consumption since 1990 8

1.2.2 Five-year change 2001–2005 in alcohol use 9

1.3 Alcohol consumption among young people 10

1.4 Patterns of drinking 12

1.4.1 Abstention 12

1.4.2 Patterns of drinking score 14

1.4.3 Heavy episodic drinking 16

2. Consequences 20

2.1 Alcohol and health 20

2.1.1 How alcohol causes disease and injury 20

2.2 The burden of disease attributable to alcohol 23

2.2.1 Alcohol-attributable mortality 24

2.2.2 Alcohol-attributable burden of disease and injury 29

2.2.3 Alcohol consumption compared to other health risks 31

2.2.4 Alcohol, health and economic development 33

2.3 Harm to society 34

2.3.1 Harm to other people 35

2.3.2 Harm to society at large 36

3. Policies and interventions 40

3.1 Leadership 42

3.2 Availability of alcohol 43

3.3 Prices and taxes 45

3.4 Drinking and driving 46

3.5 Alcohol advertising and marketing 49

3.6 Raising awareness 52

3.7 Treatment 53

3.8 Conclusion 53

References

Appendix I Country profi les

Appendix II  Additional indicators

Appendix III Alcohol consumption data

Appendix IV Data sources and methods

 

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