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The impact of an integrated alcohol policy: The example of Lithuania.
Article in Drug and alcohol review, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- The Baltics: Benchmarking alcohol control reform for the European Union and surrounding countries.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Article
- Quantifying the potential of alcohol policies for cancer prevention in the EU: a modelling study.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2026Article
- Correspondence to letter to the editor on "Sex disparities in alcohol-associated liver disease and subtype differences in alcohol-attributable cancers in the United States".Clinical and molecular hepatology · 2026Article
- A return on investment analysis for the 2017 increase in alcohol excise taxation in Lithuania.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Article
- Benchmarking progress in non-communicable diseases: a global analysis of cause-specific mortality from 2001 to 2019.Lancet (London, England) · 2025Article
- Evaluation of the national alcohol control strategy (Green Paper on Alcohol Policy) of Estonia.Drug and alcohol review · 2025Article
- The impact of an integrated alcohol policy: The example of Lithuania.Drug and alcohol review · 2025Article
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Abstract
introductionAlthough integrated alcohol policies, characterised by being consistent, structurally connected and interdependent, are considered to be best practices, very few evaluations of such policies exist. We evaluated the impact of two phases of integrated alcohol policies implemented in Lithuania in 2008/2009 and 2017/2018 on adult (15+ years of age) alcohol per capita consumption.
methodsAlcohol per capita consumption was the main outcome, based on national data from Statistics Lithuania. Time-series analyses using generalised additive mixed models were used, and unrecorded consumption trends were examined. A sensitivity analysis was conducted with data from the World Health Organization.
resultsThe two phases of integrated alcohol policies were associated with average reductions in adult alcohol per capita consumption of almost 1 litre (-0.88 L; 95% confidence interval -1.43; -0.34). Sensitivity analyses with comparable international data on Lithuania yielded similar results. DISCUSSION AND
conclusionsIntegrated alcohol policies had a substantial effect on the average level of consumption. However, the effect of major single policies for Lithuania and other Baltic countries has been estimated to be of about the same magnitude. We conclude that in order to be successful, integrated alcohol policies should include at least one major effective population-based policy.
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