Alcoholic beverages, and the problems they engender, have been familiar fixtures in human
societies since the beginning of recorded history. We review advances in alcohol science in …

Based on a literature search undertaken to determine the impacts of past public health crises,
and a systematic review of the effects of past economic crises on alcohol consumption, two …

Aim This study aimed to examine if there is an interaction between alcohol use and human
development in terms of their associations with alcohol‐attributable health harms. Design …

Alcohol consumption has been identified as an important risk factor for chronic disease and
injury. In the first paper in this Series, we quantify the burden of mortality and disease …

Liver diseases contribute markedly to the global burden of mortality and disease. This paper
provides an overview from a global perspective of the contribution of alcohol to liver …

Aims As part of a larger study to estimate the global burden of disease and injury attributable
to alcohol: to evaluate the evidence for a causal impact of average volume of alcohol …

Background and aims Alcohol use is a major contributor to injuries, mortality and the burden
of disease. This review updates knowledge on risk relations between dimensions of alcohol …

Background Reliable and timely information on the leading causes of death in populations,
and how these are changing, is a crucial input into health policy debates. In the Global …

Background We used data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors
Study 2010 (GBD 2010) to estimate the burden of disease attributable to mental and …

AIMS: To provide 12-month prevalence and disability burden estimates of a broad range of
mental and neurological disorders in the European Union (EU) and to compare these …