Alcohol and the future health of Europe
Abstract
The impact of alcohol consumption on trends in the European health situation is analysed. Particular attention is given to the impact of alcohol on the widening of the East‐West health gap in Europe. It is concluded that between 1950–75 the negative health impact of a rapid increase in per capita alcohol consumption in most European countries was hidden behind a strong positive development in many other socio‐economic determinants of health. Between 1980 and 1995, health trends have been more closely parallel to trends in alcohol consumption. Changes in alcohol consumption explain a significant proportion of changes in life expectancy, particularly in the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. Public health policy on alcohol, as part of a general development of public health policies outside the health sector, is important in reducing the East‐West health gap and sustaining the positive health trend in western Europe.
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During the late 1980s and early 1990s, a dramatic increase in alcohol consumption, much of which was of poor quality and hepatotoxic, followed the removal of restrictions on the alcohol trade, particularly in Russia and Ukraine.
“During this period, a dramatic increase in alcohol consumption, much of which was of poor quality and hepatotoxic, followed the removal of restrictions on the alcohol trade, particularly in Russia and Ukraine [5,48–50].”
From Liver cirrhosis mortality in 187 countries between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis (2014) · cites this paper as [50]
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- Authors
- LEHTO, J.
- Corresponding author
- LEHTO, JUHANI
- Venue
- Addiction
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1997-06
- Volume
- 92
- Issue
- s1
- Pages
- S91-6
- ISSN
- 0965-2140 (ISSN-L)
- 1360-0443
- OpenAlex
- W2097779767
- Cited by
- 16
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2018: 1 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 1.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Addiction (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- STM:n Hallinnonalan avoin julkaisuarkisto (Julkari) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pathology and Forensic Medicine › Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Keywords
- alcohol consumption, health trends, life expectancy, per capita alcohol consumption, socioeconomic determinants of health, public health policy, former Soviet Union
- MeSH terms
- Alcohol Drinking, Europe, Forecasting, Health Policy, Health Status Indicators, Humans
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