BIOM30001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Cardiology
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35: the role of public policy in managing harm from. Alcohol - the pervasive risk factor: in terms of overall risk to health: Global risk factors for disability-adjusted life- years (dalys) new gates foundation-funded estimates for 2013 of risks, published online in lancet on 11 september, 2015: 6th-ranking risk factor in 2000 and 2013 for global burden of disease. The most complicated of the major risk factors, in terms of the diversity of health harms from it. Alcohol use: many different factors, disease categories - most complex in terms of the diversity of diseases it is implicated in (multi-coloured bar) Bar for alcohol protrudes left of 0, reflects protective effect of alcohol e. g. heart disease. But benefit is much smaller than the adverse effects of alcohol. Frontiers page 1: it reaches across divisions in public health (and in who and health ministries) Mental disorders dependence, use disorder and alcohol-induced mental disorders.
