Estimating the Contribution made by Illicit Drug Use to the Global Burden of Disease
Overview
In 2001-2002 the World Health Organisation (WHO) updated its 1996 report on the Global Burden of Disease by estimating the contribution made to the disease burden by 20 risk factors. The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre was commissioned by WHO to estimate the contribution that illicit drug use made to disease burden. This involved analyses of epidemiological studies of premature mortality caused by illicit drug use. The data from these studies were used, in combination with the estimated prevalence of illicit drug use in WHO health regions, to estimate the total number of deaths in the world in 2000 that were attributable to illicit drug use.
OPPE Staff
Wayne Hall
Collaborators
Louisa Degenhardt, Michael Lynskey and Matthew Warner-Smith, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales.
Status
Comission completed
Outcomes
A report was written for WHO which will be incorporated into the World Health Report 2002 that is to be released in October 2002. A chapter will also be published by WHO in a book reporting the analyses of the contribution that the 20 risk factors make to global burden of disease.
Funding
OPPE
National
Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales
World
Health Organization
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Last updated: 9 July
2003