Alcohol and Public Health: Alcohol-Related Disease Impact (ARDI)

Overview

• The ARDI Home Page
• Generating Reports
• Working with Custom Data
• Contacting ARDI

The Alcohol-Related Disease Impact (ARDI) application enables users to easily access alcohol impact measures and to generate a variety of reports using either default data contained within the application or custom data that users can provide.

The ARDI Home Page

The Home Page allows you to select and view information and consists of the following sections:

Choose Report — Select the report that you want to run.

Choose Location — Select a location to include in the report.

Custom Data — Conduct your own analysis of alcohol-related harms. You must be a registered user to use this feature.

ARDI Information — View more information about ARDI, e.g. ICD codes, glossary, etc.

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Generating Reports

• You can quickly generate reports using default data contained within the application or custom data.
• The default data can be used to generate the types of reports listed below and can be accessed from the ARDI home page.
• You must log in as a registered user to generate reports using custom data you have created or edited.
• After you generate a report, you can:
  • Display the data sets used to generate that report
  • Change the report view
  • Download the report data into a comma separated value file (.csv)
  • Print the report
    

Reports available:

• Alcohol-Attributable Deaths — provides the number of deaths per cause and age group for both males and females.
• Years of Potential Life Lost — provides the years of premature death per cause and age group for both males and females.
• Alcohol-Attributable Fractions— provides the proportions of total deaths due to alcohol by causes of death for males and females.

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Working with Custom Data

• To use custom data, you must log in in as a registered user.
• The custom data section allows you to:
  • View data sets (both default and those you created)
  • Create edited copies of both default and custom data sets
  • Delete custom data sets you created
  • Create new custom data sets.
    

The following are examples of how the custom data section in ARDI can be useful:

Epidemiologists may enter custom data and generate detailed reports in the course of performing research on the impact of excessive alcohol use in a given population or location. They may also modify data to perform “what if” scenarios to assess the impact of a change in one or more data points to inform efforts to prevent excessive alcohol use.

Program specialists may use custom data to quickly answer specific questions (for example, How many alcohol-related deaths were there in a state during a given timeframe?) These results can be used to inform program and policy decisions.

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Contacting ARDI

If you have questions or comments about ARDI, you can contact the administrator by clicking the Contact Us About ARDI link at the top right side of the page and completing the required information.

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