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- Increased alcohol-specific mortality in Germany during COVID-19
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- state-level trends from 2010 to 2020
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- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-896661
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- Drug and alcohol review
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Jahrgang: 42
Heft: 3
Seiten: 633-640
E-ISSN: 1465-3362 - publication_date
- 2022
- Abstract (EN)
- Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic may have led to an increase in the alcohol-specific mortality. Against this backdrop, the aim of this report is to explore alcohol-specific mortality trends in Germany of the years 2010 to 2020. Method Alcohol-specific mortality data aggregated by sex, 5-year age groups and state were collected from the annual cause-of-death statistics and analysed descriptively by visual inspection. Results The overall alcohol-specific mortality rate (age-standardised) has mainly decreased between 2010 and 2020. However, increased alcohol-specific mortality rates for the year 2020 compared to 2019 were found for both, women (+4.8%) and men (+5.5%), particularly in age groups between 40 and 69 years. Changes in alcohol-specific mortality rates differed between federated states, with steeper increases in East Germany. Discussion and Conclusions Different mechanisms related to the increase in alcohol consumption, particularly among high-risk drinkers, and reduced resources in health care may have led to an increase in alcohol-specific mortality in Germany in 2020. Despite the recent decline in the alcohol-specific mortality in Germany, an increase in the death toll was observed in 2020.
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DOI: 10.1111/dar.13573 - Keywords (DE)
- Alkohol, alkoholspezifische Sterblichkeit, COVID-19, Deutschland, Pandemie
- Keywords (EN)
- alcohol, alcohol-specific mortality, COVID-19, Germany, pandemic
- Classification (DDC)
- 610
- Publishing house
- Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon
- version
- publizierte Version / Verlagsversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-896661
- Qucosa date of publication
- 26.02.2024
- Document type
- article
- Document language
- English
- licence
CC BY 4.0