Trends in Youth Alcohol Consumption and Related Harms in Australian Jurisdictions, 1990-2002
Year: 2005
Type: report
Abstract: Points Over the last 10 years (1993-2002), an estimated 2,643 young people (aged between 15 and 24yrs) died from alcohol-attributable injury and disease caused by risky/high risk drinking in Australia.Over 100,000 young people were hospitalised for alcohol-attributable injury and disease over a 9-year period (1993/94-2001/02).Following a period of national decline in death rates during the 1990s, in more recent years, several states/territories have begun to show increasing numbers of alcohol-attributable deaths.The most common causes of alcohol-attributable death for young people are road injury, suicide and violence.Male alcohol-attributable death rates are about 4 times greater than for females.Young Indigenous Australians are more than twice as likely as their non-Indigenous counterparts to die from alcohol-attributable causes.Death rates among Indigenous youth have not improved in the last 8 years.Young people who live in non-metropolitan areas are at greater risk of alcohol-attributable death than city youth.
Source: eSpace (Curtin University)
Authors: Tanya Chikritzhs, Pascal Richard
Language: English
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2160488087