Challenges in estimating population impacts of alcohol’s harm to others

Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

Rossow Ingeborg¹  Ramstedt Mats² 

[1] PhD Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway;PhD Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs, Sweden;

关键词: Alcohol;    harm to others;    population surveys;    causal attribution;    study design;    data collection;   

DOI  :  10.1515/nsad-2016-0042

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

BACKGROUND - There is a renewed interest in alcohol’s harm to others (AHTO), and survey studies in the general population are often used to estimate the extent of harm, to address the severity and variety of harms, and to identify the victims of such harm. While cross-sectional survey studies are attractive in several respects, they also entail several methodological challenges. AIM - We discuss some of these issues, paying particular attention to the problems of causal attribution, transferability, survey data collection and range of harms. CONCLUSIONS - We offer some suggestions for study design to enhance causal inferences from studies examining alcohol’s harm to others.

【 授权许可】

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