PMID: 2484483Nov 1, 1989Paper

Health demands due to acute alcoholism in the hospital of Sorgono 1980-1987

Annali di igiene : medicina preventiva e di comunità
P UcchedduP Contu

Abstract

In Italy, in the late 1970's, alcohol-related neoplasms represented 12% of deaths from neoplasms among men and 4.5% among women. The consumption of alcohol is responsible for a large number of psychiatric disorders, motor accidents, suicides and murders. The purpose of this research work is to describe the alcoholism in the "unità sanitaria locale" 10 of Sardinia. We studied the health demand for alcohol-related diseases (acute and chronic alcoholism, traumas in alcoholic people, alcoholic hepatopathies). Our research work has been carried out in the first aid post of the hospital of Sorgono, the only one in the whole "unità sanitaria locale", for the years 1980 to 1987. The long term trend has been studied by an exponential model y = exp (bx) The force of increase b is a valid measure of trend. We also calculated the 95 percent confidence intervals for b. We calculated the age-specific demand rates from acute alcoholism (for the years 1980 to 1987) for the whole USL. We used the indirect method of standardization to analyse the geographical distribution of cases. We calculated the Standardized Morbidity Ratio as SMR = d/(Pi Mi) * 100 and its confidence interval (95 percent) as SMR + 196 * (square root of d/Pi Mi) where d = cas...Continue Reading

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