Alcohol-related health disparities and treatment-related epidemiological findings among whites, blacks, and Hispanics in the United States.
This article briefly reviews the alcohol epidemiological evidence on health disparities across whites, blacks, and Hispanics. Compared with whites, Hispanic men have higher rates of alcohol-related problems, intimate partner violence, and cirrhosis mortality; black men have higher rates of intimate partner violence and cirrhosis mortality. All groups see treatment as an appropriate intervention to address alcohol problems, and there also is support for prevention.
Caetano
Raul
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University of Texas School of Public Health, Dallas, Texas, USA. raul.caetano@utsouthwestern.edu
D000437:Alcoholism / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy; D044383:Black People; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States; D044465:White People; D001741:Black or African American