The global proportion and volume of unrecorded alcohol in 2015.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Alcohol consumption is associated with elevated risks of disease and injury, and the best indicator of the level of consumption in a country is total alcohol per capita (APC) consumption among adults which comprises recorded consumption and unrecorded consumption. While recorded consumption can be assessed with small measurement bias via taxation or other governmental records, unrecorded consumption is more difficult to assess. The objectives of this study were to estimate the country-specific proportion and volume of unrecorded APC in 2015, to identify main sources of unrecorded alcohol and to assess to what extent experts perceive unrecorded alcohol as a public health, social, and financial problem.

Methods

Estimates of unrecorded APC were based on a mult

SUBMITTER: Probst C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6513411 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature