The current edition of Health Service Journal carries a 'data briefing' about new public health information on health behaviour, including smoking and drinking. The information is in the form of estimates of the expected prevalence of a particular behaviour at electoral ward and PCT level. The estimates for binge drinking show an 18-fold variation between the wards with the highest and lowest prevalence. Unfortunately, binge drinking is the only measure for drinking at the moment (excessive drinking might be more instructive in terms of health inequalities). The data can be downloaded here.
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alcohol research
binge drinking
health inequalities
alcohol strategy
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