Trends in estimated alcohol-attributable deaths and hospitalisations in Australia, 1996-2005National Alcohol Indicators, Bulletin No.12. Perth: National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology.
This bulletin shows trends in estimated population adjusted rates of deaths and hospitalisations attributable to risky/high risk alcohol consumption (based on NHMRC 2001 drinking guidelines) across all jurisdictions for a period of 10 years (1996-2005). The rates shown here are for adults (15+ years) and are based on the aetiologic fraction method for quantifying alcohol-attributable mortality and morbidity (English et al. 1995; WHO 2000). As such, these rates are considered estimates of deaths and hospitalisations ‘caused’ as opposed to the more loosely defined estimates of ‘alcohol-related’ events. Rates have been directly age-standardised to the 2006 national population aged 15 years and older (ABS 2008).
This Bulletin also includes estimates of non-alcohol-attributable deaths and hospitalisations as a comparison measure (page 4). Nonalcohol- attributable conditions were those not currently considered to be attributable to either alcohol or tobacco use (changes in population tobacco use may influence underlying mortality/morbidity trends). Non-alcohol-attributable conditions include for example; pancreatic cancer, unspecified dementia, and cataracts but exclude tobacco attributable conditions such as lung cancer, peptic ulcer, chronic bronchitis, peripheral vascular disease, renal pelvic cancer and bladder cancer.
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