Some aspects of alcohol-related mortality in Russia

Some aspects of alcohol-related mortality in Russia: Commentary on the article by P. Kuznetsova published in issue 4 (3) / 2020 of the Population and Economics Journal

Population and Economics, 2021

Alcohol and mortality in Russia: prospective observational study of 151 000 adults

The Lancet, 2014

Background Russian adults have extraordinarily high rates of premature death. Retrospective enquiries to the families of about 50 000 deceased Russians had found excess vodka use among those dying from external causes (accident, suicide, violence) and eight particular disease groupings. We now seek prospective evidence of these associations.

Alcohol Consumption in Russia and Some Aspects of Public Health

International Journal of High Risk Behaviors and Addiction

The problem of alcohol misuse in Russia is immense; but nonetheless there is a tendency to exaggerate it, which is evident for inside observers. Such exaggeration tends to veil shortcomings of the health care system with responsibility shifted onto the patients, that is, self-inflicted diseases caused by excessive alcohol consumption. The aim of this report is to draw attention to the above-mentioned and other problems related to the alcohol consumption in Russia, not clearly perceptible from the literature, e.g. toxicity of some legally sold alcoholic beverages. Evidence Acquisition: This report is based on a review of literature and observations by the author during the period 1970-2014. Results: Predictable increase of alcohol consumption after the anti-alcohol campaign facilitated the economical reforms of the early 1990s: workers and some intelligentsia did not oppose privatizations of state-owned enterprises partly due to their drunkenness, involvement in workplace theft and use of equipment for profit, which was often tolerated by the management at that and earlier time. Conclusions: Last time, a gradual change of the alcohol consumption pattern in Russia has been noticed: less heavy binge drinking of vodka, fortified wine and surrogates; more moderate consumption of beer.

Alcohol consumption in Russia: Distorted vision

Health Education and Care, 2018

The problem of excessive alcohol consumption in Russia is well known; however, there is a tendency to exaggerate it, which seems to be used to disguise shortages of the healthcare and the fact of legal trade with falsified beverages and surrogates. In this way, responsibility for the relatively low life expectancy is shifted upon patients, that is, supposedly self-inflicted diseases due to excessive alcohol consumption.

Selected aspects of alcohol consumption and treatment of alcoholics in Russia

Journal of Economic and Business Studies, 2024

The article is available at: https://www.pubtexto.com/journals/journal-of-economic-and-business-studies/abstracts/selected-aspects-of-alcohol-consumption-and-treatment-of-alcoholics-in-russia Updated preprint: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379540132\_Alcohol\_and\_Alcoholism\_in\_Russia\_An\_Update

Estimation of alcohol attributable fraction of mortality in Russia

Adicciones

Accumulated research evidence suggests that alcohol is a major contributor to premature deaths toll in Russia. The aim of the present study was to estimate the premature adult mortality attributable to alcohol abuse in Russia on the basis of aggregate-level data of allcause mortality and alcohol consumption. With this purpose agestandardized sex-specific male and female all-cause mortality data for the period 1980-2005 and data on overall alcohol consumption were analyzed by means ARIMA time series analysis. As a result alcohol consumption was significantly associated with both male and female all-cause mortality rates: a 1 liter increase in overall alcohol consumption would result in a 3.9% increase in the male mortality rate and in 2.4% increase in female mortality rate. The results of the analysis also suggest that 41.1% of all male deaths and 27.8% female deaths in Russia could be attributed to alcohol. We can conclude that alcohol is a major contributor to the high mortality rate in Russian Federation. Therefore prevention of alcohol-attributable harm should be a major public health priority in Russia.

Potential for Alcohol Policy to Decrease the Mortality Crisis in Russia

Evaluation & The Health Professions, 2008

Post-Soviet Russia experiences among the world's highest prevalence of alcoholrelated problems, which contributes to high mortality rates in this region. Reduction in alcohol-related problems in Russia can have strong effects on mortality decline. This article considers the plausibility of application of general principles of alcohol policy translated in the Russian Federation. We conclude that alcohol policy approaches could be implemented in the same ways as they have been in other countries. In addition, there should be special attention to decreasing distilled spirits consumption, illegal alcohol production, nonbeverage alcohol consumption, and enforcement of current governmental regulations.

Alcohol Control Policies and Alcohol-Related Mortality in Russia: Reply to Razvodovsky and Nemtsov

Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire), 2016

increase in unregistered alcohol consumption in 2005 should be considered ungrounded. The use of the Pearson correlation analysis that had demonstrated that the level of ethanol production correlates to a larger extent with the mortality indices than the level of vodka production and sales level seems to be inadequate in this case. The use of a more adequate Spearman correlation for table 2 would shorten the gap in the correlation indices, making it totally irrelevant in every third case. The authors' theory that the ethanol production index reflects the real consumption rates better may be considered correct and rather interesting. Unfortunately, the authors have not noticed that this theme had been already discussed in the Russian special literature (Krasnova, 2011). This point set by the authors may not be considered well proven, because the use of simple correlation in the analysis of temporal sequences may lead to false correlations, which can be avoided by using the method of ARIMA and autocorrelation, which requires, however, around 50 time points (authors have only 14) (Norström, 1989). It should be noted also that, in the article, there are several cases of odd free interpretation, for example of the acute increase in ethanol production levels in 2004: 'unrecorded ethyl alcohol and alcohol producers could have been preparing for the forthcoming tightening of the alcohol market regulation in 2006'. It is rather hard to agree to this psychological phenomenon, for the law had been adopted so unexpectedly that the required excise stamps could not be printed in time in the amounts needed. Besides, the level of ethanol production decreased in 2005, which does not match the hypothesis of 'the forthcoming tightening of the alcohol market regulation in 2006'.

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