Updated alcohol harm trends webtool launches with latest data

An updated online alcohol harm tool, which now includes the latest data on alcohol harm trends in Australia, was officially launched at an NDRI webinar in late June.

Developed by National Drug Research Institute (NDRI) researchers to identify and show alcohol harm trends, the Australian alcohol-attributable harm visualisation tool provides an instant, interactive way to identify trends in alcohol-attributable hospitalisations and deaths, create maps of alcohol-attributable harm in Australia, and compare counts and rates in bar and line charts.

Users of the tool, which already averages more than 10,000 hits a month, can tailor data generated by age group, sex, state, region and wholly and partially attributable health conditions.

Accessible at www.alcoholharmtool.info, the tool has been updated to include data from 2011 to 2022.

The updated tool was officially launched as part of the ‘National Alcohol Indicators Project and trends in harm’ NDRI webinar on Wednesday 25 June, starting at 11am AWST/1pm AEST.

The alcohol harm tool is a key feature of the National Alcohol Indicators Project (NAIP), a nationally coordinated project led by NDRI’s Professor Tanya Chikritzhs at Curtin University, which aims to track and report on trends in alcohol-related harm in Australia at national, state and local levels.

Visit www.alcoholharmtool.info to access the webtool and click here to access NDRI’s webinar recordings.

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