Impacts of licensed premises trading hour policies on alcohol-related harms.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aim

Evaluations of alcohol policy changes demonstrate that restriction of trading hours of both 'on'- and 'off'-licence venues can be an effective means of reducing rates of alcohol-related harm. Despite this, the effects of different trading hour policy options over time, accounting for different contexts and demographic characteristics, and the common co-occurrence of other harm reduction strategies in trading hour policy initiatives, are difficult to estimate. The aim of this study was to use dynamic simulation modelling to compare estimated impacts over time of a range of trading hour policy options on various indicators of acute alcohol-related harm.

Methods

An agent-based model of alcohol consumption in New South Wales, Australia was developed using exis

SUBMITTER: Atkinson JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6032862 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature