Globalization and Disability Addiction in Working Populations: Unlocking the Global Correlates to Disability Addiction Calls for the Healthicization of Society

• Published in: International journal of mental health and addiction 2023-12, Vol.21 (6), p.3927-3951
• Main Authors: Walker, Gabriela, Yockey, Mark, Wone, Bernard W. M.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Addictions; Addictive behaviors; Alcohol; Behavior; Body mass index; Community and Environmental Psychology; COVID-19; Culture; Disability; Disease transmission; Drug overdose; Drug use; Food; GDP; Globalization; Gross Domestic Product; Health Psychology; Inequality; Life expectancy; Low income groups; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Mental health; Original; Original Article; Pandemics; Psychiatry; Psychology; Public Health; Rehabilitation; Risk factors; Smoking; Socioeconomic factors; Stress; Tobacco
• ISSN: 1557-1874; 1557-1882
• DOI: 10.1007/s11469-022-00834-w

Addiction behavior and the resulting short-term or long-term disabilities continue to increase globally, especially during the current COVID pandemic. We analyze how national measures of 38 global indices correlate with national addiction-related disability rates resulting from four primary addictive substances: alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and food. We utilized a canonical correspondence analysis to explore the relationships between 38 political, economic, and cultural characteristics and years of life lived with a short-term or long-term health loss in 78 countries. The model selection approach reduced 38 global indices to 13 explanatory variables (final model: F 13  = 5·64, p