Alcohol Consumption: The Social and Economic Impacts

Brian Easton

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-803678-5.00015-1

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Alcohol Consumption: The Social and Economic Impacts

Brian Easton

International Encyclopedia of Public Health, pp.58-61

Elsevier, 2nd ed.

24/10/2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-803678-5.00015-1

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/39126

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Alcohol

Costs of misuse

Economic impacts

Externalities

Public spending

Social

Taxation

Alcohol misuse generates costs to society additional to those which the purchaser pays. The major externalities are discussed (excluding mortality and morbidity costs dealt with in another entry), and systematic estimates provided of their magnitude, based on Australian and Canadian studies.

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Record Identifier: 9926548462001891
Title: Alcohol Consumption: The Social and Economic Impacts
Creators: Brian Easton
Contributors: Stella R. Quah (Editor)
Publication Details: International Encyclopedia of Public Health, pp.58-61
Academic Unit: Public Health (UOW)
Publisher: Elsevier
Date published ; e-published: 24/10/2016
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Language: English
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Alcohol Consumption: The Social and Economic Impacts

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