Are alcohol policies associated with alcohol consumption in low- and middle-income countries?

Packages of Care for Alcohol Use Disorders in Low- And Middle-Income Countries

In the fourth in a series of six articles on packages of care for mental disorders in low- and middle-income countries, Vivek Benegal and colleagues discuss the treatment of alcohol use disorders.

What are the principles that should guide mental health policies in low- and middle-income countries?

Alcohol taxation policy in Thailand: implications for other low- to middle-income countries.

AIM   Prevention of drinking initiation is a significant challenge in low- and middle-income countries that have a high prevalence of abstainers, including life-time abstainers. This paper aims to encourage a debate on an alternative alcohol taxation approach used currently in Thailand, which aims specifically to prevent drinking initiation in addition to reduce alcohol-attributable harms. ME...

Are We Asking All the Right Questions About Quality of Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries?

Alcohol Consumption and Viral Load Are Synergistically Associated with CIN1

PURPOSE We investigated the association between alcohol consumption and risk of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) and cervical cancer, and determined whether these associations were modified by human papillomavirus (HPV) viral load in high-risk HPV-positive women participating in the Korean HPV cohort study (KHPV). METHODS Among the women recruited in the KHPV (n = 1,243) from March 20...