ArticleAddiction (Abingdon, England)2014
Are alcohol policies associated with alcohol consumption in low- and middle-income countries?
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- Health impact of alcohol regulatory interventions: a systematic review of policies in low- and middle-income countries.Health policy and planning · 2025Pooled it
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- Classifying Alcohol Control Policies with Respect to Expected Changes in Consumption and Alcohol-Attributable Harm: The Example of Lithuania, 2000-2019.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Beer drinking, resistance and the politics of alcohol tax levy in Botswana.Nordisk alkohol- & narkotikatidskrift : NAT · 2020Article
- Alcohol Consumption among Samoan Adults in 2010: Patterns, Correlates and Health Implications.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2020Article
- Big Tobacco, Alcohol, and Food and NCDs in LMICs: An Inconvenient Truth and Call to Action Comment on "Addressing NCDs: Challenges From Industry Market Promotion and Interferences".International journal of health policy and management · 2019Article
- The Relationship Between the U.S. State Alcohol Policy Environment and Individuals' Experience of Secondhand Effects: Alcohol Harms Due to Others' Drinking.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2019Article
- Playing the wrong game again? Policy responses to problematic video gaming in Brazil.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2018Article
- Alcohol's Harm to Others: Opportunities and Challenges in a Public Health Framework.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2018Article
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Abstract
aimsTo examine the associations between alcohol control policies in four regulatory domains with alcohol consumption in low- and middle-income countries (LAMICs), controlling for country-level living standards and drinking patterns.
designCross-sectional analyses of individual-level alcohol consumption survey data and country-level alcohol policies using multi-level modeling.
settingData from 15 LAMICs collected in the Gender, Alcohol, and Culture: an International Study (GENACIS) data set.
participantsIndividuals aged 18-65 years. MEASUREMENTS: Alcohol policy data compiled by the World Health Organization; individual-level current drinking status, usual quantity and frequency of drinking, binge drinking frequency and total drinking volume; gross domestic product based on purchasing power parity (GDP-PPP) per capita; detrimental drinking pattern scale; and age and gender as individual-level covariates.
findingsAlcohol policies regulating the physical availability of alcohol, particularly those concerning business hours or involving a licensing system for off-premises alcohol retail sales, as well as minimum legal drinking age, were the most consistent predictors of alcohol consumption. Aggregate relative alcohol price levels were associated inversely with all drinking variables (P < 0.05) except drinking volume. Greater restrictions on alcohol advertising, particularly beer advertising, were associated inversely with alcohol consumption (P < 0.05). Policies that set legal blood alcohol concentration (BAC) limits for drivers and random breath testing to enforce BAC limits were not associated significantly with alcohol consumption.
conclusionsAlcohol policies that regulate the physical availability of alcohol are associated with lower alcohol consumption in low- and middle-income countries.
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