Global status report on alcohol 2004
This publication provides an update of the role of alcohol in global health, and seeks to document what is known about alcohol consumption and drinking patterns among various population groups, alcohol's impact on health worldwide and what is needed on a global basis to prevent and reduce alcohol-related injury and disease. More emphasis has been placed on enhancing the comparability of data by setting clear and comprehensive priorities in terms of data collection . The printed part of report presents an overview and comparative analyses of the alcohol situation on a regional and global basis, including comparisons of individual countries using indicators such as alcohol use, prevalence rates and drinking patterns, and mortality trends. The CD-ROM contains individual country profiles for all member states for which sufficient data were available are presented. The indicators covered are trends in adult per capita consumption, prevalence/drinking patterns data, information regarding traditional and/or locally brewed alcoholic beverages, unrecorded alcohol consumption, health and social problems, and the social and economic costs of alcohol abuse.--Publisher's description
Print Book, English, 2004
World Health Organization, Dept. of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Geneva, 2004