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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Injury risk and drinking: technical critique


The Distilled Spirits Industry Council of Australia Inc engaged Access Economics to review a research document prepared for the Government of Australia in September 2007 titled 'Determination of injury mortality risk by volume and number of drinking occasions.

The methodology in the document was examined to determine how well the document met its aim to: 'Estimate the absolute risk of alcohol attributable injury mortality for Australians during the lifetime based on their drinking occasions, taking into account both the number of occasions and the amount consumed during these drinking occasions.'

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