Alcohol brings burdens: A global and continent wise study on alcohol consumption and global burden of diseases.

ABSTRACT: This article investigates alcohol consumption attributable burden of diseases. The present study considers the overall effect of Human Development Index (HDI), Socio Demographic Index (SDI) and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for income to measure how these variables impact Global Burden of Diseases (GDB), bringing a different perspective to the results. Data from over 177 countries mainly including European, Asian, North American, South American, African and Australian regions were analysed from 2000 to 2019. A Panel regression technique was applied, and Fixed Effects (FE) and Random Effects (RE) estimations were chosen to derive outcomes of the Hausman test. The findings reflected that alcohol consumption (wine, beer, spirit and other alcohol) has a positive significant relationship with th

SUBMITTER: Jayathilaka R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9333294 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature