TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Research methods on alcohol-related harm in the population
JO  - Revista española de salud pública
A1  - Indave, B. Iciar
A1  - Sordo, Luis
A1  - Pulido, Jose
A1  - Vallejo, Fernando
A1  - Sarasa-Renedo, Ana
A1  - Bravo, Maria J.
SP  - 447
EP  - 468
VL  - 88
IS  - 4
N2  - The aim of this paper is to describe the available methods to quantify the main health and social harms related to alcohol consumption in the population and to provide recommendations to improve research on these issues. Methods using individual and aggregate level data for the study of the relationship between alcohol consumption and related harms are taken into account, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. Methodological aspects to quantify the magnitude and trends of alcohol-related and alcohol-attributable mortality, including alcohol dependence, acute intoxication, injury, violent behavior, disease burden and social costs are widely considered. There are often discrepancies between the study results mainly due to the difficulty of adequately measuring alcohol consumption and its relationship to health conditions. In the future we must strengthen research on the effect of drinking patterns and context in chronic diseases using appropriate controls, clarify the relationship of alcohol use disorders and other mental disorders , improve the measurement of alcohol intoxication when acute problems occurs, periodically quantify the disease burden and social costs attributable to alcohol (using country- specific attributable fractions) and develop valid and comparable methods and indicators for monitoring alcohol-related harm.<p/>  <p>Language: es</p>
LA  - es
SN  - 1135-5727
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S1135-57272014000400003
ID  - ref1
ER  -