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Global Status Report on Alcohol 2004

Part I

- Title page and disclaimer [pdf 16kb]

- Foreword [pdf 45kb]

- Acknowledgements [pdf 11kb]

- Contents [pdf 45kb]

- Introduction (p.1-2) [pdf 126kb]
Introduction

- Data sources and methods (p.3-8) [pdf 146kb]
Data sources, methods, and indicators

- Global overviews: Alcohol consumption and beverage preferences (p.9-14) [pdf 168kb]
Alcohol consumption and beverage preferences

- Global overviews: Unrecorded alcohol consumption (p.15-17) [pdf 146kb]
Unrecorded alcohol consumption

- Global overviews: Traditional or local alcoholic beverages (p.18-21) [pdf 154kb]
Traditional or local alcoholic beverages, and case examples

- Global overviews: Drinking patterns (p.22-34) [pdf 182kb]
Who are the abstainers? Who are the heavy drinkers? Who are the heavy episodic drinkers? Alcohol dependence, and Youth drinking

- Consequences of alcohol use: Health effects and global burden of disease (p.35-58) [pdf 253kb]
Health effects (direct biochemical effects, intoxication, alcohol dependence, wholly alcohol-attributable diseases, diseases with a contributory role, beneficial health effects of alcohol consumption, coronary heart disease as a chronic condition where alcohol has harmful and beneficial consequences, depression, diseases related mainly to chronic alcohol consumption, traffic accidents, injuries, suicide, interpersonal violence) and global burden of disease

- Consequences of alcohol use: Social problems associated with alcohol use (p.59-64) [pdf 158kb]
Workplace, family, poverty, domestic violence, and case examples

- Consequences of alcohol use: Economic and social costs of alcohol use (p.65-66) [pdf 142kb]
Economic and social costs

- Conclusion (p.67) [pdf 121kb]
Conclusion

- References (p.68-88) [pdf 185kb]
References

Part II

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