ArticleThe European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care2017
The costs of hazardous alcohol consumption in Germany.
Article in The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- The Impact of Raising Alcohol Taxes on Government Tax Revenue: Insights from Five European Countries.Applied health economics and health policy · 2024Article
- Improving alcohol health literacy and reducing alcohol consumption: recommendations for Germany.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2023Review
- [Prevention and cost control in the German healthcare sector].Pravention und Gesundheitsforderung · 2023Article
- Beyond the Drinker: Alcohol's Hidden Costs in 2016 in Australia.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2022Article
- [Potential impact of increased alcohol taxes on the alcohol-attributable burden of disease in Germany: a modelling study].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2022Article
- Production Losses Associated with Alcohol-Attributable Mortality in the European Union.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
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Abstract
Hazardous alcohol consumption in Germany is a main threat to health. By using insurance claim data from the German Statutory Health Insurance and a classification strategy based on ICD10 diagnoses-codes we analyzed a sample of 146,000 subjects with more than 19,000 hazardous alcohol consumers. Employing different regression models with a control function approach, we calculate life years lost due to alcohol consumption, annual direct and indirect health costs, and the burden of pain and suffering measured by the Charlson-Index and assessed pain diagnoses. Additionally, we simulate the net accumulated premium payments over expenses in the German Statutory Health Insurance and the Statutory Pension Fund for hazardous alcohol consumers from a lifecycle perspective. In total, €39.3 billion each year result from hazardous alcohol consumption with an average loss of 7 years in life expectancy. Hazardous alcohol consumers clearly do not "pay their way" in the two main German social security systems and also display a higher intangible burden according to our definitions of pain and suffering.
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