Glossary:Alcohol-related deaths
From Statistics Explained
The Alcohol-related deaths, is not an agreed international definition and different definitions might be used at national level. The cause of death codes used and the disease names should always be indicated in statistical tables and surveys on alcohol-related deaths. Eurostat uses in its 'Atlas of mortality' the following grouping: malignant neoplasm of lip, oral cavity, pharynx, malignant neoplasm of oesophagus, alcohol abuse (including alcoholic psychosis), and chronic liver disease (entries 8, 9, 29, and 44 of the Causes of Death, "European Shortlist". The 'Atlas on Mortality in the European Union' is available at http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-30-08-357/EN/KS-30-08-357-EN.PDF WHO uses the following explanations in Health for all data base(http://www.euro.who.int/hfadb): "The mortality from combined, selected causes of death which are known from literature to be related to alcohol consumption. It has to be pointed out that it is relatively rough indicator and it is NOT the estimate of alcohol-attributable mortality, which is more complex and difficult to calculate. Some known alcohol-related causes are not included, as they are not available separately in the mortality data files reported to WHO (mainly when causes were coded usingICD-9 Basic Tabulation List or the list of 175 causes used in countries of former USSR). In addition, for some country-years some components of the sum may be missing causing trend breaks. This simple pooling of alcohol-related deaths (irrespective of what is the actual proportion of deaths due to alcohol in each cause) can help to better rank countries by6alcohol-related mortality and can be used to better track trends in deaths associated with alcohol than using separate causes. ”The following positions from the Causes of Death, "European Shortlist" are included in alcohol-related deaths in Eurostat's “Atlas of mortality in the European union” (2004):08 Malignant neoplasm of lip, oral cavity, pharynx (ICD-10: C00-C14 , ICD-9: 140-149,ICD-8: 140-149);09Malignant neoplasm of oesophagus (ICD-10: C15, ICD-9: 150, ICD-8: 150);29 Alcohol abuse (including alcoholic psychosis) (ICD-10: F10, ICD-9: 291, 303, ICD-8:291, 303);44 Chronic liver disease (ICD-10: K70, K73-K74, ICD-9: 571.0-571.9, ICD-8: 571.0-571.9). WHO: The WHO HFADB indicator on mortality from selected alcohol-related causes includes: cancer of oesophagus and larynx (cancer of liver is not available in the 175list);alcohol dependence syndrome (alcoholic psychoses not available in BTL); chronic liver disease and cirrhosis; all external causes.ICD-9: 150, 161, 303, 571, E800-E999.BTL: 090, 100, 215, 347, E47-E56List 175: 46, 52, 75, 122,123, 160-175ICD-10: C15,C32, F10, K70, K73, K74, K76, V00-V99, W00-W99, X00-X99, Y00-Y99.
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- Causes of death statistics
- Atlas on Mortality in the European Union [1]
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