Alcohol and Human Health

International Health Problems Related to Alcohol Abuse

The harmful use of alcohol inflicts great deal of social and economic losses on individuals and societies. Given the increase in world population and the predicted increase in alcohol consumption, the alcohol related burden of disease progressively catches higher ranks in the list of factors threatening humans' life. It has been considered that the social and economic burden related to alcohol ...

effects of alcohol consumption on human health from the perspective of holy quran and modern medicine

context holy quran has brought orders and decrees for the health and prevention of diseases for mankind which obey these rules ensure not only physical health but also mental health. the mighty god in holy quran has discouraged humans from drinking wine several times. the purpose of this study is deliberating alcohol effects on human health from the perspective of holy quran, and modern medicin...

Alcohol and Human Life

Alcohol intake and subjective health.

This cross-sectional analysis examined associations between alcohol intake and subjective health in a random sample (n = 6,040) drawn from the general population aged 25-64 years in Finland in 1992. Self-reported health was good for 3,375 persons and average or poor (suboptimal) for 2,665 persons. Crude odds ratios suggested a U-shaped pattern between alcohol intake and suboptimal health. The p...

Relationship between alcohol drinking and alcohol-related health problems.

OBJECTIVE To study the relationship between drinking environment, attitudes and situation and alcohol-related health problems. METHODS A sample of 2327 respondents was randomly collected from Wuhan, Hubei Province in China by a face-to-face interview. The structural equation modeling analysis was performed for the data collected. RESULTS Both parents' drinking behaviors and respondents' dri...