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Indicator name:
Alcohol-attributable age-standardized death rates (15+ years)
Short name:
ASDR (15+) alcohol-attributable
Data type:
Rate
Indicator Id:
1413
Topic:
Risk factors
Rationale:
Alcohol consumption has a causal impact on more than 200 health conditions (diseases and injuries). The age-standardized rates of the deaths in a given population (or liver cirrhosis, fatal road traffic crash or cancer deaths) are therefore useful in establishing the relative level of the number of individuals dying from alcohol use. Liver cirrhosis is associated with long-term excessive alcohol consumption. Alcohol is a frequent contributor to cancer and fatal road traffic crashes.
Definition:
The alcohol-attributable age-standardized death rate is defined as the number of individuals in a given population who died from an alcohol-attributable cause (or alcohol-attributable cancer, liver cirrhosis or road traffic crashes, respectively (codes according to ICD-10)), during a calendar year (i.e. alcohol-attributable age-standardized deaths per 100,000 people which would disappear if alcohol consumption was removed). Alcohol-attributable death rates are age-standardized by the WHO standard population. Numerator: The total number of alcohol-attributable deaths from all causes (or the respective condition as mentioned above) during a calendar year, among the country's population. Denominator: estimated population data from the United Nations Population Division.
Disaggregation:
Sex
Method of estimation:
The numbers of alcohol-attributable deaths per 100,000 population are influenced by the age distribution of the population. Two populations with the same age-specific alcohol-attributable mortality rates for a particular cause of death will have different overall death rates if the age distributions of their populations are different. Age-standardized alcohol-attributable mortality rates adjust for differences in the age distribution of the population by applying the observed age-specific mortality rates for each population to a standard population. Hence the age standardized alcohol-attributable mortality rate is a weighted average of the age-specific mortality rates per 100,000 persons, where the weights are the proportions of persons in the corresponding age group of the WHO standard population. Age-standardized alcohol-attributable mortality rates were calculated for population 15 years and over.
The exact number of alcohol-attributable deaths per 100,0000 people across all causes of disease and injury (or each condition) will depend on the disease and injury specific alcohol-attributable fractions (which are based on the level and patterns of alcohol consumption, and on the relative risks) and the total number of deaths (or the total number of deaths from these diseases and injuries).
Method of estimation of global and regional aggregates:
Regional estimates are derived from population weighted averages of countries with valid data on age-standardized death rates.
Preferred data sources:
Civil registration with complete coverage and medical certification of cause of death
Unit of Measure:
Alcohol-attributable deaths per 100 000 population
Expected frequency of data dissemination:
Periodic
Expected frequency of data collection:
Periodic
Comments:
Data sources: Cause of death statistics are reported to WHO by Member States on an annual basis by year, age and sex.
Links:
Global Information System on Alcohol and Health (GISAH)
http://www.who.int/healthinfo/statistics/mortality
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