Association of alcohol consumption to mortality and person-years of life lost in Switzerland ? Measuring the impact of some methodological options | Zendy

Elisabeth Gutjahr | Zendy; Gerhard Gmel | Zendy

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Association of alcohol consumption to mortality and person-years of life lost in Switzerland ? Measuring the impact of some methodological options

Author(s) -

Elisabeth Gutjahr,

Gerhard Gmel

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

european journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.825

H-Index - 111

eISSN - 1573-7284

pISSN - 0393-2990

DOI - 10.1007/s10654-004-5192-9

Subject(s) - medicine , years of potential life lost , demography , alcohol consumption , environmental health , consumption (sociology) , public health , epidemiology , gerontology , alcohol , population , life expectancy , biochemistry , chemistry , social science , nursing , sociology

The present study is designed to estimate the health impact of alcohol consumption in terms of the number of deaths and person-years of life lost (PYLL) in Switzerland. To that end, three hypothetical situations have been compared to the current situation used as a reference. The underlying question was: how many deaths and person-years of life lost would be avoided if all individuals were: (1) non-drinkers, (2) low drinkers only or (3) both (either abstainers or low level drinkers)?

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