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| Trends and geographical variations in alcohol-related deaths in the United Kingdom, 1991-2004 | | Author(s) | Claudia Breakwell, Allan Baker, Clare Griffiths |
| Journal title | Health Statistics Quarterly, no 33, Spring 2007 |
| Pages | pp 6-24 |
| Source | http://www.statistics.gov.uk |
| Keywords | Alcoholism ; Death rate [statistics] ; Poverty ; Age groups [elderly] ; Regional ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | Alcohol-related deaths in the UK increased substantially between 1991 and 2004, from 4144 to 8221. Overall rates increased in all parts of the UK. There were, however, large differences in rates between countries and regions. This article presents these differences and also looks at patterns of alcohol-related mortality by deprivation within England and Wales. The article considers changes over time for males and females and for different age groups. The alcohol-related death rate in the UK among men aged 55-74 increased by around half, from 26.2 to 38.7 deaths per 100000. For men aged 75+, death rates were considerably higher in Scotland (40.1 deaths per 100000) than for the other countries in the UK; the rate in Wales was 19.7 deaths per 100000. The largest increase for the period 1991-2004 was 79% in Northern Ireland (from 13.5 to 24.2 per 100000). For women aged 55-74, the overall rate increased by 39% from 13.9 deaths per 100000 in 1991-1997 to 19.3 per 100000 in 1998-2004. Scotland's rate was substantially higher than for the UK as a whole, 37 and 19.3 deaths per 100000 respectively. For women aged 75+, the overall UK rate increased by about a fifth, from 10.3 to 12.4 deaths per 100000. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070508210 A |
| Classmark | ETA: S5: W6: BB: 5CP: 8 |
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