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The Economic Cost of Alcohol‐related Health Care in New Zealand
Author(s) -
RAYNER TONY,
CHETWYND JANE
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1987.tb01438.x
Subject(s) - alcohol consumption , environmental health , consumption (sociology) , economic cost , alcohol , health care , public health , total cost , medicine , business , economics , economic growth , nursing , sociology , social science , biochemistry , chemistry , neoclassical economics , accounting
Summary This paper estimates the economic cost of the extra health care in New Zealand associated with the misuse of alcohol. From a range of different studies it was estimated that 7.8% of hospital operating costs were attributable to alcohol consumption. These additional costs formed 85.5% of the total increase in health costs related to excess alcohol consumption. The estimate of this total, NZ$108.3m., represented 0.4% of New Zealand GNP for 1981–82.