{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Trangenstein PJ"],"funding":["NIAAA NIH HHS"],"pagination":["311-319"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8769715"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["61(3)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Introduction</h4>More comprehensive state-level alcohol policy environments are associated with lower alcohol-attributable homicide rates in the U.S., but few studies have explored this internationally. This study tests whether 3 national-level alcohol policy scores are associated with alcohol-attributable homicide rates.<h4>Methods</h4>Data were from the 2016 WHO Global Survey on Alcohol and Health and the 2017 Global Burden of Disease Study (N=150 countries). In 2020, the authors calculated domain-specific alcohol policy scores for physical availability, marketing, and pricing policies. Higher scores represented more comprehensive/restrictive alcohol policy environments. Negative binomial regressions with Benjamini-Simes-Hochberg multiple testing correction measured the associations between policies and alcohol-attributable homicide rates. Authors stratified countries by World Bank income group to determine whether the associations differed among low- and middle-income countries.<h4>Results</h4>A 10% increase in the alcohol policy score for pricing was associated with an 18% lower alcohol-attributable homicide rate among all the countries (incidence rate ratio=0.82, adjusted p-value or q<0.001) and with a 14% (incidence rate ratio=0.86, q=0.01) decrease among 107 low- and middle-income countries. More controls on days and times of retail sales (incidence rate ratio=0.96, q=0.01) and affordability of alcohol (incidence rate ratio=0.95, q=0.04) as well as adjusting excise taxes for inflation (incidence rate ratio=0.96, q<0.01) were associated with a 4%-5% lower alcohol-attributable homicide rate in the full sample.<h4>Conclusions</h4>Countries with policies that reduce alcohol's affordability or days/hours of sales tend to have fewer alcohol-attributable homicides, regardless of their income level. Alcohol-attributable homicide rates are highest in low- and middle-income countries; policies that raise alcohol-relative prices may hold promise for curbing these harms."],"journal":["American journal of preventive medicine"],"pubmed_title":["Alcohol Policy Scores and Alcohol-Attributable Homicide Rates in 150 Countries."],"pmcid":["PMC8769715"],"funding_grant_id":["R01 AA023870"],"pubmed_authors":["Rossheim ME","Cook WK","Peddireddy SR","Trangenstein PJ","Jernigan DH","Monteiro MG"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Alcohol Policy Scores and Alcohol-Attributable Homicide Rates in 150 Countries.","description":"<h4>Introduction</h4>More comprehensive state-level alcohol policy environments are associated with lower alcohol-attributable homicide rates in the U.S., but few studies have explored this internationally. This study tests whether 3 national-level alcohol policy scores are associated with alcohol-attributable homicide rates.<h4>Methods</h4>Data were from the 2016 WHO Global Survey on Alcohol and Health and the 2017 Global Burden of Disease Study (N=150 countries). In 2020, the authors calculated domain-specific alcohol policy scores for physical availability, marketing, and pricing policies. Higher scores represented more comprehensive/restrictive alcohol policy environments. Negative binomial regressions with Benjamini-Simes-Hochberg multiple testing correction measured the associations between policies and alcohol-attributable homicide rates. Authors stratified countries by World Bank income group to determine whether the associations differed among low- and middle-income countries.<h4>Results</h4>A 10% increase in the alcohol policy score for pricing was associated with an 18% lower alcohol-attributable homicide rate among all the countries (incidence rate ratio=0.82, adjusted p-value or q<0.001) and with a 14% (incidence rate ratio=0.86, q=0.01) decrease among 107 low- and middle-income countries. More controls on days and times of retail sales (incidence rate ratio=0.96, q=0.01) and affordability of alcohol (incidence rate ratio=0.95, q=0.04) as well as adjusting excise taxes for inflation (incidence rate ratio=0.96, q<0.01) were associated with a 4%-5% lower alcohol-attributable homicide rate in the full sample.<h4>Conclusions</h4>Countries with policies that reduce alcohol's affordability or days/hours of sales tend to have fewer alcohol-attributable homicides, regardless of their income level. Alcohol-attributable homicide rates are highest in low- and middle-income countries; policies that raise alcohol-relative prices may hold promise for curbing these harms.","dates":{"release":"2021-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2021 Sep","modification":"2025-04-22T09:58:56.242Z","creation":"2025-04-05T23:23:42.694Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8769715","cross_references":{"pubmed":["34229927"],"doi":["10.1016/j.amepre.2021.03.020"]}}