The effects of alcohol taxation, minimum unit pricing, and restricted temporal availability on overall alcohol consumption eClinicalMed alcohol policy alcoholpolicies publichealth consumption
By Neha MathurMay 26 2023Reviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLM In a recent article published in the eClinicalMedicine Journal, researchers performed a systematic review to estimate the impact of three main alcohol control policies, alcohol taxation, minimum unit pricing , and restricted temporal availability on alcohol consumption levels.
Moreover, while a few reviews have quantified the association between alcohol policies and overall alcohol consumption, none have systematically examined the differential impact of alcohol control policies by sociodemographic factors such as gender, SES, and race/ethnicity, uncovering a wide research gap and negligence of such subgroup effects.
The team determined the relative change in alcohol consumption levels following each policy intervention as a percentage change. In the quantitative summary, the authors delineated between studies that tested the immediate policy effect on alcohol consumption and those that examined alcohol consumption change in the long term, i.e., beyond the first year of policy implementation.
Assuming that policy effects on alcohol consumption were bi-directional, the researchers combined studies evaluating the effects of restricting temporal alcohol availability with those examining liberalization. All three policies contributed to decreased alcohol consumption levels and subsequent harm. For example, introducing an MUP of ~ 0.90Int$/10 g of pure alcohol or raising the alcohol excise taxes by twice on average reduced alcohol consumption levels by 10% within the same year and much higher reductions in low-income vs. more affluent groups.
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