Alcoholism - Economics
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Reducing harm from alcohol: call to action.

25 Jun 2009 Despite clear evidence of the major contribution alcohol makes to the global burden of disease and to substantial economic costs, focus on alcohol control is inadequate internationally and in most countries. Expansion of industrial production and ... Read more...

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of policies and programmes to reduce the harm caused by alcohol.

25 Jun 2009 This paper reviews the evidence for the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of policies and programmes to reduce the harm caused by alcohol, in the areas of education and information, the health sector, community action, driving while under the ... Read more...

Variation in use and costs of primary health and social services in mental health or drinking problems.

30 May 2009 BACKGROUND: Psychiatric inpatient hospital care was cut dramatically in Finland in recent last decades, and patients were assigned to care in the community. Consequently, the burden of care shifted from hospital districts to municipalities, which ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Alcoholism - Economics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Alcohol and global health: focus on acute pancreatitis needed. 17 Sep 2009
• Specialist alcohol treatment services fail to meet need in Scotland. 8 Aug 2009
• NHS still failing to tackle alcohol misuse despite rise in admissions. Aug 2009
• Reducing harm from alcohol: call to action. 25 Jun 2009
• Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of policies and programmes to reduce the harm caused by alcohol. 25 Jun 2009
• Variation in use and costs of primary health and social services in mental health or drinking problems. 30 May 2009
• The role of monthly spending money in college student drinking behaviors and their consequences. 29 Apr 2009
• Doctors warn against removing benefits from alcoholics who refuse treatment. 15 Apr 2009
• Risk for suicide among medicaid beneficiaries. 30 Mar 2009
• Health care and public service use and costs before and after provision of housing for chronically homeless persons with severe alcohol problems. 30 Mar 2009
• The individual and societal effects of non-psychotic serious mental disorders on earnings in Belgium. 26 Mar 2009
• Financial Armageddon. 27 Feb 2009
• Alcohol treatment effects on secondary nondrinking outcomes and quality of life: the COMBINE study. 27 Feb 2009
• Moral transgression, disease and holistic health in the Livingstonia Mission in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Malawi. 30 Dec 2008
• The cost effectiveness of naltrexone added to cognitive-behavioral therapy in the treatment of alcohol dependence. 30 Dec 2008
• Alcohol policy. Battle of the binge. 9 Dec 2008
• The social costs of alcohol misuse in Estonia. Dec 2008
• Mental disorders as risk factors for later substance dependence: estimates of optimal prevention and treatment benefits. 30 Nov 2008
• The cost-effectiveness of increasing alcohol taxes: a modelling study. 26 Nov 2008
• Persistence with oral naltrexone for alcohol treatment: implications for health-care utilization. 30 Oct 2008

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Technical information about 'Alcoholism'

Definition: A primary, chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. The disease is often progressive and fatal. It is characterized by impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking, most notably denial. Each of these symptoms may be continuous or periodic. (Morse & Flavin for the Joint Commission of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and the American Society of Addiction Medicine to Study the Definition and Criteria for the Diagnosis of Alcoholism: in JAMA 1992;268:1012-4)

Descriptor UI: D000437

Alternative terms: Alcoholism; Alcoholic Intoxication, Chronic; Chronic Alcoholic Intoxication; Intoxication, Chronic Alcoholic; Alcohol Abuse; Abuse, Alcohol;

Related Mesh Headings: Alcohol Deterrents; Alcoholics Anonymous; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; Psychoses, Alcoholic; Temperance;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C21.739.100.250; F03.900.100.350;

Technical Notes: human & animal; do not coord with CHRONIC DISEASE: alcoholism is presumed to be chronic; differentiate from ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION, being drunk, not chronic; acute alcoholic intox & binge drinking is ETHANOL /pois; /drug ther: consider also ALCOHOL DETERRENTS; consider also LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC & its specifics FATTY LIVER, ALCOHOLIC; HEPATITIS, ALCOHOLIC & LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; also PANCREATITIS, ALCOHOLIC; also CARDIOMYOPATHY, ALCOHOLIC; PSYCHOSES, ALCOHOLIC & FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; index other compl of alcoholism under ALCOHOLISM /compl (IM) + disease /etiol not /chem ind (IM); abstinence from alcohol in alcoholism: coord with TEMPERANCE (NIM); available is SKID ROW ALCOHOLICS see HOMELESS PERSONS but see note there