| Description |
pages 96-157 ; 28 cm |
| Series |
European addiction research, 1022-6877 ; v. 7, no. 3 |
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European addiction research v. 7, no. 3
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| Contents |
Applying principles of comparative risk analysis to substance abuse-related burden / J. Rehm G. Gmel --A World Health Organization perspective on alcohol and illicit drug use and health / M.G. Monteiro -- Challenges and approaches to estimating mortality attributable to the use of selected illicit drugs / M. Warner-Smith, et al -- Relation between average alcohol consumption and disease: an overview / E. Gutjahr, G. Gmel and J. Rehm -- Methodological approaches to conducting pooled cross-sectional time series analysis: the example of the association between all-cause mortality and per capita alcohol consumption for men in 15 European states / G. Gmel, J. Rehm and U. Frick -- Steps towards constructing a global comparative risk analysis for alcohol consmption: determining indicators and empirical weights for patterns of drinking, deciding about theoretical minimum, and dealing with different consequences / J. Rehm, et al -- Average volume of alcohol consumption, drinking patterns and related burden of mortality in young people in established market economies of Europe / J. Rehm, et al. -- Appendix 1. Questionnaire for informants -- Appendix 2. Alcohol per capita consumption, patterns of drinking and abstention worldwide after 1995 |
| Summary |
According to the Global Burden of Diseases study in 1990 (GBD) alcohol, even more than tobacco, was found to be connected worldwide to considerable burden of disease. The recent Global Burden of Disease study, GBD 2000, compares the impact of alcohol on disease with twenty other risk factors in a new and more standardized way. One of these factors in addition to alcohol will be illicity drugs. This special issue presents an overview of the first conceptualizations and methodological solutions developed for conducting a risk analysis for alcohol and illicit drugs. The contributions touch upon problems of measuring the prevalence of illicit drug use, problems of conceptualizing the patterns of drinking dimension in alcohol epidemiology, and problems of defining the baseline scenario of minimal risk which avoidable and attributable burden is measured |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Drug addiction.
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Substance abuse.
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages.
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| Author |
Gmel, Gerhard.
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Rehm, Jürgen.
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| ISBN |
3805572905 |
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