ANALYSIS OF WORKING YEARS LIFE LOST DUE TO ALCOHOL IN THE REPUBLIC OF SAKHA (YAKUTIA)

Introduction. According to the World Health Organization, hazardous drinking led to more than 3 million deaths which was 5,3% of all deaths in the world in 2016. In addition to lives lost, alcohol-attributable deaths are associated with heavy economic burden due to early deaths of working age population. We estimated the amount of working age years of life lost due to alcohol in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), North-East Russia. Material and methods. All deaths among men and women of working age in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) for the period of 2006-2016 were included in the full study (N=20462). Data on deaths rate are obtained from the Federal State Statistics Service in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Alcohol-attributable fractions for calculations of years of working life lost were obtained from the international guidelines. Results. Altogether, the total number of working years of life lost due to alcohol in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) was 114684,9 years during the study period or 10425,9 years per year on average constituting 49,2% of the total of years of working life lost. For men the corresponding numbers were 102318,8 years and of 9301,7while for women they were 12366,1 and 1124,2. Conclusion. During the period of 11 years, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) lost nearly 120 thousand person-years in the working age group or more than 12% of the total population due to alcohol- related deaths However, annual burden of alcohol-related deaths has been decreasing over the study period which could be partly explained by the current alcohol policies. If increased retirement age was used in calculations, the number of working life years lost was 157758,1 years representing even heavier economic burden for the region.

alcohol, mortality, years of life lost, working age