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10.1016/j.lanepe.2023.100704
Title: | Impact of the WHO “best buys” for alcohol policy on consumption and health in the Baltic countries and Poland 2000–2020 |
Authors: | Rehm, Jürgen Badaras, Robertas Ferreira-Borges, Carina Galkus, Lukas Gostautaite Midttun, Nijole Gobiņa, Inese Janik-Koncewicz, Kinga Jasilionis, Domantas Jiang, Huan Kim, Kawon Victoria Lange, Shannon Liutkutė-Gumarov, Vaida Manthey, Jakob Miščikienė, Laura Neufeld, Maria Petkevičienė, Janina Radišauskas, Ričardas Reile, Rainer Room, Robin Stoppel, Relika Tamutienė, Ilona Tran, Alexander Trišauskė, Justina Zatoński, Mateusz Zatoński, Witold A. Zurlytė, Ingrida Štelemėkas, Mindaugas Department of Public Health and Epidemiology Institute of Public Health |
Keywords: | Alcohol;All-cause mortality;Availability;Ban on marketing;Control policies;Taxation;3.2 Clinical medicine;3.3 Health sciences;1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database;Internal Medicine;Oncology;Health Policy;SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being |
Issue Date: | Oct-2023 |
Citation: | Rehm , 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 |
Abstract: | Alcohol 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. |
Description: | Funding 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 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.lanepe.2023.100704 |
ISSN: | 2666-7762 |
Appears in Collections: | Research outputs from Pure / Zinātniskās darbības rezultāti no ZDIS Pure |
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