‘Alcohol Related Deaths are Increasing in United States’- National Institutes of Health

January 19, 2020 Sandesh Adhikari Public Health News 0

Consumption of alcohol is increasing globally. In the United States, alcohol related deaths are increasing as reported by National Institutes of Health (NIH) on January 10, 2020. This might not be different in other parts of the world.

“An analysis of U.S. death certificate data by researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health, found that nearly 1 million people died from alcohol-related causes between 1999 and 2017. The number of death certificates mentioning alcohol more than doubled from 35,914 in 1999 to 72,558 in 2017, the year in which alcohol played a role in 2.6% of all deaths in the United States. The increase in alcohol-related deaths is consistent with reports of increases in alcohol consumption and alcohol-involved emergency department visits and hospitalizations during the same period. The new findings are reported online in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.” – NIH

Please see the following website for more information:

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/alcohol-related-deaths-increasing-united-states

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Sandesh Adhikari (MPH, WHO-TDR Scholar, BRAC James P. Grant School of Public Health, Bangladesh) has more than eight years of experience in public health sector. He has worked under different thematic areas of disaster, health, nutrition, HIV and AIDS, youth engagement, research etc., targeting diverse audience of different age groups. Mr. Adhikari has performed diverse roles of public health program coordinator, central information management officer, nutrition coordinator, research coordinator, consultant, academician and strategic partnership coordinator in different programs, projects and academic institutions of Nepal. Mr. Adhikari holds immense experience in working closely and persistently with government organizations, non-government organizations, UN agencies, CSOs and other stakeholders at the national and sub-national level. He has successfully led and coordinated different projects involving multi-sector participation and engagement. Moreover, he has also contributed as a core technical team member for the development different health and nutrition guidelines and manuals of Government of Nepal.