Prices, taxes and alcohol use: a systematic umbrella review.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To measure the impact of taxes and prices on alcohol use with particular attention to the different context of rising alcohol consumption in low- and middle-income countries.

Methods

Systematic review: we searched MEDLINE, Embase, EconLit and LILACS, grey literature, hand-searched five specialty journals and examined references of relevant studies. We considered all reviews that included studies that quantitatively examined the relationship between alcohol prices or taxes and alcohol use. At least two reviewers independently screened the articles and extracted the characteristics, methods and main results and assessed the quality of each included study. We identified 30 reviews.

Results

There was overwhelming evidence that higher alcohol prices and taxes were asso

SUBMITTER: Guindon GE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9796894 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature