The comparative risk assessment for alcohol as part of the Global Burden of Disease 2010 Study: What changed from the last study?

  • Jürgen Rehm Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
  • Guilherme Borges National Institute of Psychiatry
  • Gerhard Gmel Lausanne University Hospital
  • Kathryn Graham Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
  • Bridget Grant National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
  • Charles Parry Medical Research Council
  • Vladimir Poznyak World Health Organization
  • Robin Room Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7895/ijadr.v2i1.132
Keywords: alcohol, global burden of disease and injury, comparative risk analysis

Abstract

Rehm, J., Borges, G., Gmel, G., Graham, K., Grant, B., Parry, C., Poznyak, V. & Room R. (2013). The comparative risk assessment for alcohol as part of the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study: What changed from the last study? International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research, 2(1), 1-5.  doi: 10.7895/ijadr.v2i1.132 (http://dx.doi.org/10.7895/ijadr.v2i1.132)

In December 2012, the new results of the Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) for alcohol within the Global Burden of Disease and Injury (GBD) Study 2010 were presented at a joint meeting of the GBD Group and the journal Lancet at the Royal Society in London (Lim et al., 2012). At first glance, there do not appear to be many changes to alcohol consumption as a risk factor for death and disability: it is identified as the third most important risk factor, as it was in the last CRA (World Health Organization, 2009). The burden of disease attributable to alcohol had increased, compared to the 2004 estimate (Rehm, Mathers et al., 2009), but this could be due to an increase in global population, or to variations in the methodologies behind the 2004 and 2010 estimates.

Author Biographies

Jürgen Rehm, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Director, Social and Epidemiological Research Department, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH),Toronto, Canada

Chair and Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Professor, Institute for Medical Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Section Head, Institute for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Guilherme Borges, National Institute of Psychiatry
Division of Epidemiological and Psychosocial Research, National Institute of Psychiatry, Mexico City, Mexico
Gerhard Gmel, Lausanne University Hospital

Alcohol Treatment Centre, Lausanne University Hospital CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland

Section Epidemiology and Statistics, Addiction Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada

University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom

Kathryn Graham, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada

Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia

Bridget Grant, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), National Institutes of Health, Rockville, USA

Charles Parry, Medical Research Council

Alcohol & Drug Abuse Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

Department of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa

Vladimir Poznyak, World Health Organization

World Health Organization Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland

Robin Room, Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre

Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia;

Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Australia; Centre for Social Research on Alcohol & Drugs, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Published
2013-03-19
How to Cite
Rehm, J., Borges, G., Gmel, G., Graham, K., Grant, B., Parry, C., Poznyak, V., & Room, R. (2013). The comparative risk assessment for alcohol as part of the Global Burden of Disease 2010 Study: What changed from the last study?. International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research, 2(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.7895/ijadr.v2i1.132
Issue
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2013)
Section
Editorial

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