Simulation of Alcohol Control Policies for Health Equity (SIMAH) Project: Study Design and First Results.

ABSTRACT: Since about 2010, life expectancy at birth in the United States has stagnated and begun to decline, with concurrent increases in the socioeconomic divide in life expectancy. The Simulation of Alcohol Control Policies for Health Equity (SIMAH) Project uses a novel microsimulation approach to investigate the extent to which alcohol use, socioeconomic status (SES), and race/ethnicity contribute to unequal developments in US life expectancy and how alcohol control interventions could reduce such inequalities. Representative, secondary data from several sources will be integrated into one coherent, dynamic microsimulation to model life-course changes in SES and alcohol use and cause-specific mortality attributable to alcohol use by SES, race/ethnicity, age, and sex. Markov models will be used t

SUBMITTER: Probst C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10423629 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature