IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/aph/ajpbhl/10.2105-ajph.2013.301289_3.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Minimum alcohol prices and outlet densities in British Columbia, Canada: Estimated impacts on alcohol-attributable hospital admissions

Author

Listed:
  • Stockwell, T.
  • Zhao, J.
  • Martin, G.
  • Macdonald, S.
  • Vallance, K.
  • Treno, A.
  • Ponicki, W.
  • Tu, A.
  • Buxton, J.

Abstract

Objectives. We investigated whether periodic increases in minimum alcohol prices were associated with reduced alcohol-attributable hospital admissions in British Columbia. Methods. The longitudinal panel study (2002-2009) incorporated minimum alcohol prices, density of alcohol outlets, and age- and gender-standardized rates of acute, chronic, and 100% alcohol-attributable admissions. We applied mixed-method regression models to data from 89 geographic areas of British Columbia across 32 time periods, adjusting for spatial and temporal autocorrelation, moving average effects, season, and a range of economic and social variables. Results. A 10% increase in the average minimum price of all alcoholic beverages was associated with an 8.95% decrease in acute alcohol-attributable admissions and a 9.22% reduction in chronic alcohol-attributable admissions 2 years later. A Can $ 0.10 increase in average minimum price would prevent 166 acute admissions in the 1st year and 275 chronic admissions 2 years later. We also estimated significant, though smaller, adverse impacts of increased private liquor store density on hospital admission rates for all types of alcoholattributable admissions. Conclusions. Significant health benefits were observed when minimum alcohol prices in British Columbia were increased. By contrast, adverse health outcomes were associated with an expansion of private liquor stores. Copyright © 2013 by the American Public Health Association®.

Suggested Citation

  • Stockwell, T. & Zhao, J. & Martin, G. & Macdonald, S. & Vallance, K. & Treno, A. & Ponicki, W. & Tu, A. & Buxton, J., 2013. "Minimum alcohol prices and outlet densities in British Columbia, Canada: Estimated impacts on alcohol-attributable hospital admissions," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 103(11), pages 2014-2020.
  • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2013.301289_3
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301289
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2105/AJPH.2013.301289
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.2105/AJPH.2013.301289?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Anurag Sharma & Brian Vandenberg, 2019. "Heterogenous wealth effects of minimum unit price on purchase of alcohol: Evidence using scanner data," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(12), pages 1-16, December.
    2. Kolosnitsyna, Marina (Колосницына, Марина) & Khorkina, Natalia (Хоркина, Наталья) & Dorjiev, Khongor (Доржиев, Хонгор), 2015. "The impact of price measures of state alcohol policy on the consumption of alcoholic beverages in Russia [Влияние Ценовых Мер Государственной Антиалкогольной Политики На Потребление Спиртных Напитк," Ekonomicheskaya Politika / Economic Policy, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, vol. 5, pages 171-190.
    3. Ashini Weerasinghe & Nour Schoueri-Mychasiw & Kate Vallance & Tim Stockwell & David Hammond & Jonathan McGavock & Thomas K. Greenfield & Catherine Paradis & Erin Hobin, 2020. "Improving Knowledge that Alcohol Can Cause Cancer is Associated with Consumer Support for Alcohol Policies: Findings from a Real-World Alcohol Labelling Study," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(2), pages 1-16, January.
    4. Irena Palamani Xhurxhi, 2020. "The early impact of Scotland's minimum unit pricing policy on alcohol prices and sales," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 29(12), pages 1637-1656, December.
    5. Clare Beeston & Mark Robinson & Lucie Giles & Elinor Dickie & Jane Ford & Megan MacPherson & Rachel McAdams & Ruth Mellor & Deborah Shipton & Neil Craig, 2020. "Evaluation of Minimum Unit Pricing of Alcohol: A Mixed Method Natural Experiment in Scotland," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(10), pages 1-12, May.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2013.301289_3. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Christopher F Baum (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.apha.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.