The Organisation for Economic Co‑operation and Development (OECD) work on harmful alcohol use was conducted on behalf of its Health Committee, between 2018 and 2020. Michele Cecchini was responsible for the project, overseeing its development. He also led the production of Chapter 1. The production of Chapters 2 and 8 was led by Sabine Vuik. Marion Devaux co‑ordinated the production of the report and led the production of Chapters 3, 5 and 7 as well as the country notes. Yevgeniy Goryakin led the production of Chapter 4, while Jane Cheatley led the production of Chapter 6. Alexandra Aldea was in charge of the modelling work, which is led by Aliénor Lerouge. Yvan Guillemette, from the Economics Department, ran the analyses on the OECD long-term economic model and contributed to Chapters 4 and 7. Antoine Marsaudon, Marta Bertanzetti and Laura Suhlrie gave substantial contributions to, respectively, Chapters 3, 6 and 7, while Andrea Feigl contributed to Chapter 4.
Many more people deserve credit for the work presented in this book. The production of this report benefited greatly from the inputs and comments received from other OECD colleagues, national experts, member states representatives and other stakeholders.
Within the OECD, the authors would like to thank Lucy Hulett and Lydia Wanstall for the editorial assistance. Hannah Whybrow and Guillaume Haquin provided administrative assistance. Stefano Scarpetta, Mark Pearson and Francesca Colombo provided senior leadership and advice throughout the project. Franco Sassi provided inputs in the initial phases of the designing of the project. Francesca Borgonovi from the Education Directorate provided inputs and comments.
Special thanks go to Artur Furtado, Attila Balogh and Hana Horka (European Commission) who followed the development of the project since its conceptualisation and provided inputs throughout. The authors would like to thank both French bodies “Mission Interministérielle de Lutte contre les Drogues et les Conduites Addictives” and “Délégation à la sécurité routière”, and the members of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health who commented on earlier versions of the work and contributed to the development of this project since its initiation.
For its work on public health, the OECD maintains a close partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) and its Regional Offices. Authors would like to Carina Ferreira-Borges (WHO-Europe) and Maristela Monteiro (PAHO) for their comments on the different drafts of the report.
Preliminary versions of the chapters of this book were presented and discussed at meetings of the OECD Expert Group on the Economics of Public Health (EGEPH), chaired by Brian Ferguson and Amber Jessup, and at the December 2020 meeting of the OECD Health Committee, chaired by Hans Brug. Country experts and delegates are too many to name individually, but the authors would like to thank in particular delegates from Australia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, the European Commission and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission for their constructive comments throughout the process. In addition, the authors would like to acknowledge useful comments from the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD (BIAC) and the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC).
The authors would like to thank the following organisations and institutions for providing the data used in the analyses presented in this report. These organisations and institutions do not bear any responsibility for the analysis or interpretation of the data.
The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) surveys (2001/02, 2005/06, 2009/10, 2013/14) produced by the HBSC international network co‑ordinated by the HBSC International Co‑ordinating Centre based at the Child and Adolescent Health Research Unit in the University of St Andrews, Scotland. The HBSC data are managed by the HBSC Data Management Centre based at the Department of Health Promotion and Development of the University of Bergen, Norway.
The Global Information System on Alcohol and Health (GISAH) managed by the World Health Organization.
The European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) 2014, managed by Eurostat.
The Canadian Community Health Survey 2015‑16, managed by Statistics Canada.
The 1970 British Cohort Study, managed by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at University College London, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, and accessed through the UK Data Service.
The Health Survey for England 2016, managed by Health Surveys Unit of NatCen Social Research and the Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London.
The French ‘Baromètre santé’ 2017, run by Santé Publique France.
The Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) 2018, managed by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Mexican ‘Encuesta Nacional de Consumo de Drogas, Alcohol y Tabaco’ (ENCODAT) 2016‑17, managed by Comisión Nacional contra las Adicciones.
The New Zealand Christchurch Health and Development Study (CHDS), run by the University of Otago, made available for this study upon request.
The US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2015, managed by National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The US National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) 1994‑2009, managed by the Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and accessed through the CPC Dataverse.
The Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS), conducted by the Higher School of Economics and ZAO “Demoscope”, together with the Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed through the CPC Dataverse.
The work was funded through regular contributions from OECD member countries and received support from grants from the Health Programme of the European Union, and from the governments of France and Switzerland.