[EQ] Best practice in estimating the costs of alcohol - Recommendations for future studies

de: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) : ruglucia@paho.org
fecha: 14 de junio de 2010 14:42
asunto: [EQ] Best practice in estimating the costs of alcohol - Recommendations for future studies


Best practice in estimating the costs of alcohol – Recommendations for future studies

Edited by:Lars Møller, Regional Adviser a.i., WHO Regional Office for Europe
Srdan Matic, Unit Head, WHO Regional Office for Europe World health Organization WHO Regional Office for Europe
2010, vi + 64 pages - ISBN 978 92 890 4207 9


Available online PDF [72p.] at: http://bit.ly/bSet1F



This report aims to summarize best practice in estimating the attributable and avoidable costs of alcohol, and to make recommendations for making such estimates in future studies. It discusses the conceptual basis for such cost studies, and examines the conceptual and methodological challenges for each type of cost in turn. It recommends:
1. changes in the terminology used;
2. the consistent and explicit consideration of external costs;
3. more sophisticated modelling of the effect of policy on costs;
4. more robust attempts to quantify alcohol’s causal effect on harm and costs;
5. a demonstration project using new methodologies;
6. the use of scenarios rather than existing sensitivity analyses;
7. the importing of data from other studies rather than simply omitting certain types of cost;
8. consideration of future health and resource costs; and
9. not using the human capital method for valuing the labour costs of premature mortality within the main estimates.



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