Lehto J
National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health, Helsinki, Finland.
Addiction. 1997 Mar;92 Suppl 1:S91-6.
The impact of alcohol consumption on trends in the European health situation is analysed. Particular attention is given to the impact of alcohol on the widening of the East-West health gap in Europe. It is concluded that between 1950-75 the negative health impact of a rapid increase in per capita alcohol consumption in most European countries was hidden behind a strong positive development in many other socio-economic determinants of health. Between 1980 and 1995, health trends have been more closely parallel to trends in alcohol consumption. Changes in alcohol consumption explain a significant proportion of changes in life expectancy, particularly in the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. Public health policy on alcohol, as part of a general development of public health policies outside the health sector, is important in reducing the East-West health gap and sustaining the positive health trend in western Europe.
分析了酒精消费对欧洲健康状况趋势的影响。特别关注了酒精对欧洲东西方健康差距扩大的影响。得出的结论是，在1950年至1975年期间，大多数欧洲国家人均酒精消费量迅速增加对健康的负面影响隐藏在许多其他健康社会经济决定因素的强劲积极发展背后。在1980年至1995年期间，健康趋势与酒精消费趋势更为紧密地平行。酒精消费的变化在很大程度上解释了预期寿命的变化，特别是在前苏联的新独立国家。作为卫生部门以外公共卫生政策总体发展的一部分，酒精公共卫生政策对于缩小东西方健康差距和维持西欧积极的健康趋势至关重要。
