Table 1.
Estimates of association between alcohol consumption and homicide rates, hazardous drinking pattern score and estimated fraction of homicides attributable to alcohol consumption (from Rossow and Bye, 20133)
| Author(s) | Country/area, period |
Parameter estimate (SE) |
Level of hazardous drinking pattern |
Attributable fraction (AF) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rossow (2001)274 | North Europe, 1950–1995 |
0.124 (0.038) |
High | 0.50 |
| Rossow (2001) | Central Europe, 1950–1995 |
0.085 (0.023) |
Medium | 0.55 |
| Rossow (2001) | South Europe, 1950–1995 |
0.055 (0.017) |
Low | 0.61 |
| Rossow (2004)275 | Canada, Ontario, 1950–1995 |
0.093 (0.040) |
Medium | 0.58 |
| Rossow (2004) | Canada, Quebec, 1950–1995 |
–0.030 (0.077) ns |
Low | na |
| Bye (2008)276 | Belarus and Russia, 1959–2004 |
0.072 (0.016) |
Very high | 0.57 |
| Bye (2008) | Former Czechoslovakia, 1953–1989 |
0.117 (0.067) |
Medium | 0.73 |
| Landberg and Norström (2011)277 |
United States, 1950–2002 |
0.094 (0.044) |
Medium | 0.57 |
| Landberg and Norström (2011) |
Russia, 1959–1998 |
0.081 (0.015) |
Very high | 0.73 |
| Norström (2011)278 | United States, 1950–2002, dry |
0.035 (0.047) ns |
Low | na |
| Norström (2011) | United States, 1950–2002, moderate |
0.071 (0.037) |
Medium | 0.51 |
| Norström (2011) | United States, 1950–2002, wet |
0.174 (0.045) |
High | 0.80 |
| Ramstedt (2011)11 | Australia, 1950–2003 |
0.075 (0.028) |
Medium | 0.56 |
ns, not significant; na, not applicable.