ReviewEClinicalMedicine2023
Reducing alcohol use through alcohol control policies in the general population and population subgroups: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of population-level policies to reduce alcohol use: A systematic umbrella review.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2025Pooled it
- State of the Science of Structural Stigma and LGBTQ+ Health: Meta-Analytic Evidence, Research Gaps, and Future Directions.Annual review of public health · 2025Pooled it
- Does geographic availability of alcohol influence drinking in adolescents? A systematic review of literature associations.Health & place · 2024Pooled it
- The relationship between the price and demand of alcohol, tobacco, unhealthy food, sugar-sweetened beverages, and gambling: an umbrella review of systematic reviews.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Proposal of a Conceptual Framework on Barriers to Addiction Prevention and Their Potential Contribution to Prevention Failure.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2026Article
- Individual, interpersonal, organizational, and community contexts: factors associated with alcohol consumption among Brazilian adolescents.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
- Mind the Gap: Exploring Social Inequalities in Alcohol Consumption using Nationally Representative Data from the 2019 and 2021 Health Survey for England.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Lifestyle modification in atrial fibrillation: Mechanisms, phenotypes and ablation outcomes.Experimental physiology · 2026Review
- Global Research Trends in Community-Based Strategies for Reducing Risky Alcohol Consumption and Promoting Health.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Burden of disease attributable to tobacco, high alcohol use, and drug use from 1990 to 2021.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Can alcohol use explain the increase in educational inequalities in all-cause mortality after 2010 in the USA? A three-way interaction analysis.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Article
- Impact of the LCBO strike on Ontario emergency department visits with an alcohol-related chief complaint: a natural experiment in alcohol policy.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Global Burden of Type 2 Diabetes Attributable to Behavioral Risks: Insights and Projections to 2050 Based on the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.International journal of public health · 2026Article
- Alcohol-Related Hospitalizations From 2016 to 2022.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Targeting alcohol use in high-risk population groups: a US microsimulation study of beverage-specific pricing policies.The Lancet. Public health · 2025Article
- Restrictive and permissive alcohol policies during the COVID-19 pandemic and their association with alcohol consumption in the United States.The International journal on drug policy · 2025Article
- Prioritization of methods for assessing alcohol use in emergency room settings: findings from a qualitative study.Health policy and planning · 2025Article
- Socio-economic equity in the impact of population-based interventions to reduce alcohol consumption.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Article
- Quick buys for prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2025Review
- The Global Burden of Cirrhosis and Other Chronic Liver Diseases in 2021.Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver · 2025Article
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Abstract
We estimate the effects of alcohol taxation, minimum unit pricing (MUP), and restricted temporal availability on overall alcohol consumption and review their differential impact across sociodemographic groups. Web of Science, Medline, PsycInfo, Embase, and EconLit were searched on 08/12/2022 and 09/26/2022 for studies on newly introduced or changed alcohol policies published between 2000 and 2022 (Prospero registration: CRD42022339791). We combined data using random-effects meta-analyses. Risk of bias was assessed using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. Of 1887 reports, 36 were eligible. Doubling alcohol taxes or introducing MUP (Int$ 0.90/10 g of pure alcohol) reduced consumption by 10% (for taxation: 95% prediction intervals [PI]: -18.5%, -1.2%; for MUP: 95% PI: -28.2%, 5.8%), restricting alcohol sales by one day a week reduced consumption by 3.6% (95% PI: -7.2%, -0.1%). Substantial between-study heterogeneity contributes to high levels of uncertainty and must be considered in interpretation. Pricing policies resulted in greater consumption changes among low-income alcohol users, while results were inconclusive for other socioeconomic indicators, gender, and racial and ethnic groups. Research is needed on the differential impact of alcohol policies, particularly for groups bearing a disproportionate alcohol-attributable health burden. Funding: Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01AA028009.
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