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Health Economics of Addiction
Author(s) -
Salize Hans Joachim,
MohlerKuo Meichun,
Godfrey Christine,
Holder Harold D.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
alcoholism: clinical and experimental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.267
H-Index - 153
eISSN - 1530-0277
pISSN - 0145-6008
DOI - 10.1097/01.alc.0000171485.48012.89
Subject(s) - addiction , consumption (sociology) , alcohol consumption , health economics , political science , health care , public economics , environmental health , psychology , psychiatry , economic growth , medicine , economics , sociology , social science , alcohol , biochemistry , chemistry
This article presents the proceedings of a symposium held at the meeting of the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ISBRA) in Mannheim, Germany, in October 2004. The symposium covered some crucial of the manifold aspects in the field of health economic research of alcoholism, for example, results of cost of treatment studies, evolution of health economic research in past years, methodological problems of cost‐effectiveness studies, and the effects of tax or price policies for alcohol consumption and the increase of alcohol‐related problems. Studies from the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Germany were presented, underlining that even in these highly industrialized countries, health economic research is far from providing the essential evidence needed for adequate service planning or effective cost containment strategies in the field of alcoholism or addiction in general.