Impact of the WHO “best buys” for alcohol policy on consumption and health in the Baltic countries and Poland 2000–2020

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dc.contributor.authorRehm, Jürgen
dc.contributor.authorBadaras, Robertas
dc.contributor.authorFerreira-Borges, Carina
dc.contributor.authorGalkus, Lukas
dc.contributor.authorGostautaite Midttun, Nijole
dc.contributor.authorGobiņa, Inese
dc.contributor.authorJanik-Koncewicz, Kinga
dc.contributor.authorJasilionis, Domantas
dc.contributor.authorJiang, Huan
dc.contributor.authorKim, Kawon Victoria
dc.contributor.authorLange, Shannon
dc.contributor.authorLiutkutė-Gumarov, Vaida
dc.contributor.authorManthey, Jakob
dc.contributor.authorMiščikienė, Laura
dc.contributor.authorNeufeld, Maria
dc.contributor.authorPetkevičienė, Janina
dc.contributor.authorRadišauskas, Ričardas
dc.contributor.authorReile, Rainer
dc.contributor.authorRoom, Robin
dc.contributor.authorStoppel, Relika
dc.contributor.authorTamutienė, Ilona
dc.contributor.authorTran, Alexander
dc.contributor.authorTrišauskė, Justina
dc.contributor.authorZatoński, Mateusz
dc.contributor.authorZatoński, Witold A.
dc.contributor.authorZurlytė, Ingrida
dc.contributor.authorŠtelemėkas, Mindaugas
dc.contributor.institutionDepartment of Public Health and Epidemiology
dc.contributor.institutionInstitute of Public Health
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-30T12:00:01Z
dc.date.available2023-10-30T12:00:01Z
dc.date.issued2023-10
dc.descriptionFunding Information: Funding: Research reported in this publication was in part supported by the (U.S.) National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), grant number 1R01AA028224 . This research was conducted as part of the project ‘Evaluation of the impact of alcohol control policies on morbidity and mortality in Lithuania and other Baltic states’ and we would like to thank the whole team for their input to wider discussions in generating the research reported in this paper. Content is the responsibility of the authors and does not reflect official positions of the NIAAA or the NIH. Publisher Copyright: © 2023
dc.description.abstractAlcohol use is a major risk factor for burden of disease. This narrative review aims to document the effects of major alcohol control policies, in particular taxation increases and availability restrictions in the three Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) between 2000 and 2020. These measures have been successful in curbing alcohol sales, in general without increasing consumption of alcoholic beverages from unrecorded sources; although for more recent changes this may have been partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, findings from time-series analyses suggest improved health, measured as reductions in all-cause and alcohol-attributable mortality, as well as narrowing absolute mortality inequalities between lower and higher educated groups. For most outcomes, there were sex differences observed, with alcohol control policies more strongly affecting males. In contrast to this successful path, alcohol control policies were mostly dismantled in the neighbouring country of Poland, resulting in a rising death toll due to liver cirrhosis and other alcohol-attributable deaths. The natural experiment in this region of high-income European countries with high consumption levels highlights the importance of effective alcohol control policies for improving population health.en
dc.description.statusPeer reviewed
dc.format.extent308526
dc.identifier.citationRehm, J, Badaras, R, Ferreira-Borges, C, Galkus, L, Gostautaite Midttun, N, Gobiņa, I, Janik-Koncewicz, K, Jasilionis, D, Jiang, H, Kim, K V, Lange, S, Liutkutė-Gumarov, V, Manthey, J, Miščikienė, L, Neufeld, M, Petkevičienė, J, Radišauskas, R, Reile, R, Room, R, Stoppel, R, Tamutienė, I, Tran, A, Trišauskė, J, Zatoński, M, Zatoński, W A, Zurlytė, I & Štelemėkas, M 2023, 'Impact of the WHO “best buys” for alcohol policy on consumption and health in the Baltic countries and Poland 2000–2020', The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, vol. 33, 100704. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2023.100704
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.lanepe.2023.100704
dc.identifier.issn2666-7762
dc.identifier.otherMendeley: c742b862-70f7-3bc0-8fb0-c5457e18a2f2
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.rsu.lv/jspui/handle/123456789/14928
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85172194949&partnerID=8YFLogxK
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/c742b862-70f7-3bc0-8fb0-c5457e18a2f2/
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofThe Lancet Regional Health - Europe
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectAlcohol
dc.subjectAll-cause mortality
dc.subjectAvailability
dc.subjectBan on marketing
dc.subjectControl policies
dc.subjectTaxation
dc.subject3.2 Clinical medicine
dc.subject3.3 Health sciences
dc.subject1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database
dc.subjectInternal Medicine
dc.subjectOncology
dc.subjectHealth Policy
dc.subjectSDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
dc.titleImpact of the WHO “best buys” for alcohol policy on consumption and health in the Baltic countries and Poland 2000–2020en
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