Countries with a high prevalence of spirit drinking, for example, where heavy drinkers are at a particularly high risk of death from acute alcohol poisoning or fatal intoxication due to inhalation of vomit, may have rates of fatal or life-threatening liver cirrhosis that are far higher than is apparent from mortality rates from cirrhosis per se.
Owing to the rise of individualism and also to the prevalence of Greek ideas concerning a guardian spirit, or daimon, the genius lost its original meaning and came to be a sort of personification of the individual's natural desires and appetites.
Sales of spirits are also improving.
This shows a much higher prevalence, and a far stronger relationship with socio-economic factors, of surrogate drinking, zapoi and frequent hangover than with daily or almost/daily consumption of spirits.
In this article we assess the prevalence rates of harmful spirit possession, different features of the spirits and of their hosts, the correlates of the spirit possession experience, health patterns and the sources of health care consulted by possessed individuals in a population sample of 941 adults (255 men, 686 women) in post-civil war Mozambique in 2003 2004.
We propose that knowledge of both local understandings of harmful spirit possession and the community prevalence of this kind of possession is a precondition for designing public health interventions that sensitively respond to the health needs of people afflicted by spirits.
Look at the prevalence of oral sex among younger children.
Russians have a particularly hazardous pattern of alcohol consumption, characterized by a high prevalence of binge drinking and a high proportion of total consumption from spirits [ 8].
You lament the prevalence of extreme gerrymandering.
