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Environmental Health Indicators

Mortality

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This page contains counts and rates of death for conditions wholly attributable to alcohol.

Surveillance Reports and Metadata

Surveillance Report: Mortality wholly attributable to Alcohol (Sep 2026) Download report PDF
Metadata: Mortality wholly attributable to alcohol Download report PDF

The data source is the Mortality collection from Health New Zealand. The data output is the number of persons who have died where the underlying cause of death ICD10 code belongs to a set of conditions defined as wholly attributable to alcohol consumption. 

These conditions are:

E24.4

 Alcohol induced pseudo-Cushing syndrome

F10

 Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol

G31.2

 Degeneration of nervous system due to alcohol

G62.1

 Alcoholic polyneuropathy

G72.1

 Alcoholic myopathy

I42.6

 Alcoholic cardiomyopathy

K29.2

 Alcoholic gastritis

K70

 Alcoholic liver disease

K85.2

 Alcohol induced acute pancreatitis

K86.0

 Alcohol induced chronic pancreatitis

T51.0

 Toxic effect of alcohol: Ethanol

T51.1

 Toxic effect of alcohol: Methanol

T51.9

 Toxic effect of alcohol: Alcohol, unspecified

Q86.0

 Foetal alcohol syndrome (dysmorphic)

R78.0

 Finding of alcohol in blood

 

 

References

  1. Ahmad OB, Boschi-Pinto C, Lopez AD, et al. 2001. Age Standardization of Rates: A New WHO Standard (Technical Report). GPE Discussion Paper Series: No. 31. Geneva: World Health Organization.
  2. Eayres D. 2008. Technical Briefing 3: Commonly used public health statistics and their confidence intervals. York: Association of Public Health Observatories.
  3. Jones L, Bellis MA. 2014. Updating England-Specific Alcohol Attributable Fractions. Liverpool: Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University.
  4. Ministry of Health. 2015. Factsheet: Short stay emergency department events. Wellington: Ministry of Health.

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