The avoidable costs of alcohol abuse in Australia and the potential benefits of effective policies to reduce the social costs of alcohol
List of abbreviations
Table of contents
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations
- Executive summary
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A brief summary of methodological issues
- 3. The aggregate social costs of alcohol
4. Estimating the Feasible Minimum in practice- 5. The intervention choices
- 6. Effective interventions whose benefits cannot be evaluated
- 7. Summary of results
- 8. Conclusions
- 9. Research recommendations
- Appendix A. Methodological issues
- Reference
BAC: blood alcohol concentration
BMA: British Medical Association
EU: European Union
GP: general practitioner
GST: Goods and Services Tax
n.e.i.: not elsewhere included
NHMRC: National Health and Medical Research Council
OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
RBT: random breath testing
SMR: age-standardised mortality rate
WET: Wine Equalisation Tax
WHO: World Health Organization
YLL: years of life lost
