Lessons from the Baltic Alcohol Control Policy Project: policies that contribute to decreasing burden of mortality and disease
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This short brief describes the main findings and the key lessons learned from the research project "Evaluation of the impact of alcohol control policies on morbidity and mortality in Lithuania and other Baltic states", funded by the United States National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism for the period 2000–2025. The WHO-backed project aims to assess the effects of alcohol control policies implemented in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and to investigate the impact they have had on both people's health and the countries' economies, based on concrete actions taken. The key findings of the project demonstrate that alcohol control policies such as taxation and availability measures decrease all-cause mortality and reduce inequalities, and that dismantling alcohol control policies has the opposite effect on population health. They also highlight that consumption of unrecorded alcohol will not necessarily go up if taxation is increased and that specific countermeasures can be taken to prevent an increase in unrecorded consumption.
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World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe (2023). Lessons from the Baltic Alcohol Control Policy Project: policies that contribute to decreasing burden of mortality and disease. World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe.. https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/367673. License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO
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WHO/EURO:2023-7517-47284-69366
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