Trends in alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality for Victoria, Australia from 2000/01 to 2009/10

H Jayasekara; J Ferris; S Matthews; M Livingston; B Lloyd

Journal article

Trends in alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality for Victoria, Australia from 2000/01 to 2009/10

H Jayasekara, J Ferris, S Matthews, M Livingston, B Lloyd

Journal of public health (Oxford, England) | OXFORD UNIV PRESS | Published : 2014

DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdt063

Abstract

© The Author 2013. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Faculty of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com. BACKGROUND: To examine trends in alcohol-attributable morbidity (AAMorb) (2000/01-2009/10) and mortality (AAMort) (2000-07) by age, sex and region. METHODS: Time-series analyses of population data for Victoria, Australia. We used joinpoint regression to quantify trends by estimating quarterly percent change (QPC) for rates of morbidity and mortality. We present the average QPC (AQPC) as a weighted average of QPCs. A test of parallelism was used to examine pairwise differences. RESULTS: AAMorb increased significantly ..

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Harindra Jayasekara Author

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Funding Acknowledgements

M.L. is supported by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Early Career Fellowship (#1053029). The Centre for Alcohol Policy Research is funded by the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education, an independent, charitable organisation working to prevent the harmful use of alcohol in Australia http://www.fare.org.au. No funding statements to declare for H.J., J.F., B. L., S.M.