Alcohol-Related Health Consequences

Roughly a tenth of premature mortality in San Francisco is alcohol-related, and the impact on our health care system is considerable. The SF Police Department expends considerable resources on alcohol-related problems.

More than 60 International Classification of Disease (ICD-10) categories are associated with alcohol. Some of the main ones are depicted in two tables from a forthcoming DPH report.

Alcohol

Overview

Contribution to overall disease burden in SF

Downstream (health consequences)

Upstream causes

What can be done?

Web resources

MEDLINE strategies

Updated January 1, 2008 • Please send feedback: brian.katcher[replace with @-sign]sfdph.org

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