ARDI Help

Overview

The Alcohol-Related Disease Impact (ARDI) application enables users to easily access alcohol impact measures and to generate a variety of reports using either standard CDC data or custom data.

The types of reports available are:

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

Features

Generating Reports

• You can quickly generate reports using standard CDC data.
• You must log in as a registered user to generate reports using custom data you have created or edited. To generate reports using standard data, you do not have to log in.
• After you generate a report, you can display the data sets, change the view, download the report data into a comma separated value file, or print the report.

Working with Custom Data

• You must log in as a registered user to work with custom data.
• Working with custom data includes viewing data sets, creating editable copies of and editing data sets, deleting data sets, and creating new data sets.

The following are examples of how ARDI users might use custom data:

Epidemiologists may enter custom data and generate detailed reports in the course of performing research on alcohol impact in a given population. They may also modify data to perform “what if” scenarios to assess the impact of a change in one or more data points to support alcohol abuse prevention programs.

Program specialists may use default ARDI data to quickly answer specific questions (for example, How many alcohol-related deaths were there in a state during a given year?). These results will then likely be used to support program and policy decisions.