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The Impact of Alcohol Intake on Human Beings Health in China

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Smart Health (ICSH 2014)

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Drinking is one of the main causes of disease burden. In this paper, we tried to find the effect of alcohol intake on health state using the China Health and Nutrition Survey data in a model of regression. We initially used the self assessed health, which was widely used in related studies, in the database as the health variable but obtained controversial result. After that, to test the result we compared the drinking status between participants who are longevous and who are not and found the initial result is unreasonable. We then used the life span as our health variable which produced sensible result as expected. Linear regression and ordinal logistic regression were used to quantify the effect of alcohol intake on health. The results for our sample suggest two conclusions: 1) drinkers are overconfident in their health statuses; and 2) alcohol intake does shorten the life span on average.

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  1. Dongling School of Economics and Management, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China

    Wenbin Wang, Kaiye Gao & Qing Wei

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  1. The State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China

    Xiaolong Zheng

  2. The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA and Chinese Academy of Sciences,, Beijing, China

    Daniel Zeng

  3. The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA and Tsinghua University, Beijing,, China

    Hsinchun Chen

  4. Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Yong Zhang  & Chunxiao Xing  & 

  5. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Daniel B. Neill

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Wang, W., Gao, K., Wei, Q. (2014). The Impact of Alcohol Intake on Human Beings Health in China. In: Zheng, X., Zeng, D., Chen, H., Zhang, Y., Xing, C., Neill, D.B. (eds) Smart Health. ICSH 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8549. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08416-9_9

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