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Case example 4: India“In a 1997 study comparing two groups of families within the same community in Delhi, India (Group A having at least one adult consuming alcoholic drinks at least three times per week in the last month and Group B having no adult consuming more than one drink in the last month), it was found that Group A, on an average, spent almost 14 times more on alcohol per month compared with Group B. A larger proportion of families in Group A had significant debt compared with Group B. The implications of this are towards fewer financial resources for food and education of children and fewer resources for purchasing daily living consumables. The more heavily drinking Group A was more likely to report major illnesses or injuries during the past one year and was more likely to require medical treatment. Source: Saxena, Sharma & Maulik (2003)” Source & © WHO Related publication:
Other Figures & Tables on this publication: Table 4: Top 20 countries with highest beverage-specific adult per capita [APC] consumption Table 6: Rate of last year abstainers among the adult population Table 7: Heavy drinkers among the adult population Table 8: Heavy episodic drinkers among the adult population Table 9: Alcohol dependence among adult population Table 10: Heavy episodic drinkers among youths Table 11: Heavy episodic drinkers among young adults aged 18-24 years old Table 21 [bis]: Social and economic costs of alcohol abuse for selected countries Figure 5: Global disease burden (in DALYs) in 2001 from alcohol use disorders, by age group and sex Figure 6: Global deaths in 2001 from alcohol use disorders, by age group and sex Footnote on the meaning of "adults" Table 3: Total recorded alcohol per capita consumption (15+) |
