The cost-effectiveness of increasing alcohol taxes: a modelling study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Excessive alcohol use increases risks of chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease and several types of cancer, with associated losses of quality of life and life-years. Alcohol taxes can be considered as a public health instrument as they are known to be able to decrease alcohol consumption. In this paper, we estimate the cost-effectiveness of an alcohol tax increase for the entire Dutch population from a health-care perspective focusing on health benefits and health-care costs in alcohol users.

Methods

The chronic disease model of the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment was used to extrapolate from decreased alcohol consumption due to tax increases to effects on health-care costs, life-years gained and quality-adjusted life-years gaine

SUBMITTER: van den Berg M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2637894 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature