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Morbidity among Female Alcoholics

From the Department of Alcoholic Diseases and the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Malmö General Hospital, University of Lund, Sweden

With data from the public health insurance societies, 71 female alcoholics were studied for a period lasting from the sixth year before, to the fourth year after the first compulsory treatment by the Temperance Board. The control group consisted of 71 women, matched for age. The disability rate for the proband group rose markedly up to the year before the intervention, reflecting principally an increasing frequency rate. At the same time, the proportion not sick among the probands decreased markedly. The increase in the disability rate represented mainly the diagnostic categories accidents and mental disorders. During the last five years of the observation period, no other changes occurred concerning the morbidity. However, the proportion not insured for daily allowance, i.e. those in class 0 and those with disability pensions, showed a somewhat different pattern: an increase after the compulsory intervention. Three probands developed tuberculosis of the lungs during the observation period—about thirty times the expected incidence.

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 2, No. 1, 5-11 (1974)
DOI: 10.1177/140349487400200102


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