Estimating the disease burden of alcohol : the problems arising when data and policy interact Stevenson, C. 2002, Estimating the disease burden of alcohol : the problems arising when data and policy interact, in Proceedings of the 16th Australian Statistical Conference, [Statistical Society of Australia], [Canberra, A. C. T.], pp. 1-1. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Estimating the disease burden of alcohol : the problems arising when data and policy interact Author(s) Stevenson, C. orcid.org/0000-0003-4026-5719 Conference name Australian Statistical Conference (16th : 2002 : Canberra, A.C.T.) Conference location Canberra, A. C. T. Conference dates 7-11 Jul. 2002 Title of proceedings Proceedings of the 16th Australian Statistical Conference Editor(s) [Unknown] Publication date 2002 Conference series Australian Statistical Conference Start page 1 End page 1 Total pages 1 Publisher [Statistical Society of Australia] Place of publication [Canberra, A. C. T.] Summary While the risk of many disease or injury conditions is raised by the presence of health risk factors, it is usually impossible to identify individual risk-factor caused cases. However, the overall burden of disease and injury attributable to various health risks can be estimated if we know the prevalence of exposure to the risk factor in the community and the relative risk of each causally associated disease or injury for those exposed to the risk factor. This paper describes the estimation of the total number of deaths and hospital episodes attributable to alcohol consumption. It also describes how some methodologically trivial variations to the estimation methods raised some major issues in interpreting the results for the development of public policy. Language eng Field of Research 119999 Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970111 Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences HERDC Research category E3.1 Extract of paper Copyright notice ©2002, [Statistical Society of Australia] Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30046692 Document type: Conference Paper Collection: Faculty of Health   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 09 Aug 2012, 14:44:38 EST Thu, 20 Jun 2013, 15:36:51 EST Thu, 20 Jun 2013, 15:39:42 EST Tue, 09 Dec 2014, 10:49:29 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 42 Abstract Views, 2 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 09 Aug 2012, 14:44:38 EST