3.5.2 Number of Cases of Alcoholism

BAGUIO CITY DATA SOURCE: Health Services Office (HSO)

Global Definition
Harmful use of alcohol, defined according to the national context as alcohol per capita consumption (aged 15 years and older) within a calendar year in litres of pure alcohol
Harmful use of alcohol, defined according to the national context as alcohol per capita consumption
(aged 15 years and older) within a calendar year in litres of pure alcohol

Total alcohol per capita consumption (APC) is defined as the total (sum of recorded APC three-year
average and unrecorded APC) amount of alcohol consumed per adult (15+ years) over a calendar year, in litres of pure alcohol.

Recorded alcohol consumption refers to official statistics at country level (production, import, export,
and sales or taxation data), while the unrecorded alcohol consumption refers to alcohol which is not
taxed and is outside the usual system of governmental control, such as home or informally produced
alcohol (legal or illegal), smuggled alcohol, surrogate alcohol (which is alcohol not intended for human
consumption), or alcohol obtained through cross-border shopping (which is recorded in a different
jurisdiction).

In circumstances in which the number of tourists per year is at least the number of inhabitants, the
tourist consumption is also taken into account and is deducted from the country’s recorded APC. The
data on the number of tourists is from UN Tourist Statistics.

source: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/
Computation:
total recorded number of cases of alcoholism

3.5.2 Number of Cases of Alcoholism in the Sustainable Development Goals

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Ensuring healthy lives and promoting the well-being for all at all ages is essential to sustainable development. Significant strides have been made in increasing life expectancy and reducing some of the common killers associated with child and maternal mortality. Major progress has been made on increasing access to clean water and sanitation, reducing malaria, tuberculosis, polio and the spread of HIV/AIDS. However, many more efforts are needed to fully eradicate a wide range of diseases and address many different persistent and emerging health issues.

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