Beck Michael, Dietrich Sandra, Matschinger Herbert, Angermeyer Matthias C
Department of Psychiatry, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Alcohol Alcohol. 2003 Nov-Dec;38(6):602-5. doi: 10.1093/alcalc/agg120.
To assess the extent to which the German public supports the allocation of financial resources to the care of people with alcoholism and to research on alcoholism as compared with other conditions.
5025 interviews were conducted in the scope of a representative survey in Germany during May and June of 2001, using a personal, fully structured interview.
Respondents most frequently selected alcoholism as the disease for which medical care expenditures could be spared and cut down and on which research funds should neither be spent in the first place nor should be spent at all.
Our study shows that despite the spread of the concept 'alcoholism is an illness', this disease is still treated 'unfavourably' compared to other conditions. Health campaigns that increase the public's awareness that alcoholism is not a personal failure but an illness with severe medical and social consequences may help reduce the public acceptance of structural discrimination.
评估德国公众在多大程度上支持将财政资源分配用于酗酒者护理以及酗酒研究，并与其他疾病情况进行比较。
2001年5月至6月期间，在德国进行了一项具有代表性的调查，采用个人全结构化访谈方式，共进行了5025次访谈。
受访者最常选择酗酒作为可以节省和削减医疗保健支出的疾病，并且认为在酗酒研究方面，资金既不应首先投入，也根本不应投入。
我们的研究表明，尽管“酗酒是一种疾病”这一概念已经传播开来，但与其他疾病相比，这种疾病仍然受到“不利”对待。提高公众认识的健康宣传活动，即酗酒不是个人失败而是一种具有严重医学和社会后果的疾病，可能有助于减少公众对结构性歧视的接受。
