Alcohol reform in Viet Nam: confronting rising consumption, injury and harm

Title: Alcohol reform in Viet Nam: confronting rising consumption, injury and harm
Creator: Tam, Nguyen Minh; Doran, Christopher M.; Hill, Peter S.; Dunne, Michael P.
Relation: Applied Health Economics and Health Policy Vol. 10, Issue 5, p. 285-287
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF03261861
Publisher: Adis International
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2012
Description: Alcohol consumption has been identified as an important risk for chronic disease and injury, with an estimated 3.8% of all global deaths and 4.6% of disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) attributed to alcohol. A recent burden of disease study conducted in Viet Nam suggests that alcohol was a contributing risk factor in 5% of the total disease burden and the leading cause of disability among males. Alcohol is also a key contributor to road traffic injuries, which ranked second in terms of Viet Nam’s burden of disease. A recent study of male accident victims due to traffic injuries indicated that 60.4% of patients admitted to the emergency department at a central Viet Nam hospital had a blood alcohol concentration level over the legal limit.
Subject: alcohol consumption; Viet Nam; government; policies
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1317167
Identifier: uon:23351
Identifier: ISSN:1175-5652
Language: eng
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