Harms from and Costs of Alcohol Consumption in the Northern Territory : Final Report
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Title
Harms from and Costs of Alcohol Consumption in the Northern Territory : Final Report,
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Report prepared by The SA Centre for Economic Studies,
Creator
South Australian Centre for Economic Studies,
Collection
E-Publications,
E-Books,
PublicationNT,
Date
2009-09-01,
Description
Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).,
Notes
Date:2009-09,
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Report commissioned by Menzies School of Health Research.,
Table of contents
Executive Overview -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary of Terms -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 Policy context -- 2.2 Social cost -- 2.3 Collins and Lapsley‘s national estimates of the social cost of alcohol consumption -- 3. Identifying Alcohol Attributable Mortality and Morbidity -- 3.1 Calculating PAAFs -- 3.2 Conditions included in the analysis -- 3.3 Collins Differences in approach from Collins and Lapsley -- Part A Northern Territory Social Cost Estimates -- 4. Workforce Impacts -- 4.1 Reductions in workforce due to alcohol-attributable deaths -- 4.2 Absenteeism -- 4.3 Reduction in on-the-job productivity -- 4.4 Reductions in labour in the household -- 4.5 Summary of workforce impacts -- 5. Healthcare Costs 26
5.1 Hospital costs -- 5.2 Other health care costs -- 5.3 Pharmaceutical -- 5.4 Nursing homes -- 5.5 Ambulance -- 6. Road Crash Costs -- 7. Costs of Crime -- 7.1 Police -- 7.2 Criminal courts -- 7.3 Prisons -- 7.4 Property theft and damage -- 7.5 Insurance administration -- 7.6 Productivity of prisoners -- 8. Resources Used in Abusive Consumption -- 9. Potential Social Benefits -- 9.1 Impact on economic activity -- 9.2 Alcohol and government revenue -- 10. Intangible Costs -- 10.1 Loss of life -- 10.2 Pain and suffering -- 11. Total Costs -- Part B Extensions to the Analysis -- 12. Sensitivity Analysis -- 12.1 Comparisons with Collins and Lapsley -- 12.2 Adjustment of directly derived alcohol fractions -- 12.3 Alternative approaches to valuing lost productivity -- 13. Incidence of Costs -- 13.1 Considerations in assessing the incidence of costs -- 13.2 Incidence of costs by stakeholder -- 13.3 Incidence of costs by risk category of drinkers -- Part C Avoidable Cost of Alcohol Consumption in the Northern Territory -- 14. The Effectiveness of Policies to Reduce the Harms of Alcohol -- 15. Assessing the Avoidable Cost of Alcohol Related Harms -- 15.1 Approaches used -- 15.2 Time lags associated with policies to reduce substance related harms -- 15.3 Dealing with the protective effect of alcohol -- 16. Avoidable Costs of Alcohol: Effectiveness of Living With Alcohol Program -- 16.1 Workforce impacts -- 16.2 Health care -- 16.3 Road crash costs -- 16.4 Costs of crime -- 16.5 Resources used in abusive consumption -- 16.6 Additional taxation revenue -- 16.7 Intangible costs -- 16.8 Total avoidable costs -- References.,
Language
English,
Subject
Australians -- Alcohol use,
Publisher name
South Australian Centre for Economic Studies,
Place of publication
South Australia,
Format
96 p. ; 30 cm.,
File type
application/pdf.,
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