Alcohol and insurance in the Netherlands

• Published in: Versicherungsmedizin Vol. 43; no. 1; p. 27
• Main Author: Schröder, A E
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: German
• Published: Germany 01.02.1991
• Subjects: Alcoholism - complications; Alcoholism - mortality; Alcoholism - psychology; Cause of Death; Cost Control - trends; Humans; Insurance, Health - economics; Insurance, Life - economics; Netherlands; Netherlands

Ethyl-Alcohol is a very big problem in the world, but not a new addict. Drinking of more than 280 g. a week is disastrous for the most organs. The nervous system, the liver, the heart und circulatory system, even the bones and muscles will be damaged. With more than six-hundred-thousand victims in t...