What's in a cost? Comparing economic and public health measures of alcohol's social costs

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2012

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Crampton, Eric
Burgess, Matt
Taylor, Brad

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Southern Colour Print

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Studies based on a cost of illness method frequently assert large social costs from a variety of risky activities, the harms from which most typically fall upon the risk-taker himself. Many of these costs are inadmissible in a standard economic framework; consequently, figures derived by the cost of illness method are not comparable with other economic notions of cost and are of very limited policy use.

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Keywords: absenteeism; adverse outcome; alcohol consumption; alcohol intoxication; article; cost of illness; crime; disability; drunken driving; falling; health care cost; health care policy; high risk behavior; human; mortality; productivity; public health service

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New Zealand Medical Journal

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Journal article

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