Age, period and cohort trends in drug abuse hospitalizations within the total Swedish population (1975-2010).

ABSTRACT:

Background

The societal consequences of drug abuse (DA) are severe and well documented, the World Health Organization recommending tracking of population trends for effective policy responses in treatment of DA and delivery of health care services. However, to correctly identify possible sources of DA change, one must first disentangle three different time-related influences on the need for treatment due to DA: age effects, period effects and cohort effects.

Methods

We constructed our main Swedish national DA database (spanning four decades) by linking healthcare data from the Swedish Hospital Discharge Register to individuals, which included hospitalisations in Sweden for 1975-2010. All hospitalized DA cases were identified by ICD codes. Our Swedish national sample consiste

SUBMITTER: Giordano GN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3909834 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature