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Journal articles on the topic "Alcohol control policy measures"
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Štelemėkas, Mindaugas, Jakob Manthey, Shannon Lange, Robertas Badaras, João Breda, Carina Ferreira‐Borges, and Jürgen Rehm. "Evaluation of alcohol policy control measures is key." Addiction 115, no. 8 (February 20, 2020): 1590–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.14983.
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Van Iwaarden, M. J. "An Alcohol Policy in the European Union?" Nordisk Alkoholtisdkrift (Nordic Alcohol Studies) 11, no. 5-6 (October 1994): 264–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1455072594011005-609.
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Although the production and consumption of alcoholic beverages in Europe ranks among the highest in the world, resulting in many social and public health problems, measures to create an EU level alcohol control policy are yet to be made. Alcoholic beverages are currently regarded mainly as one product among many other products and the related restrictions are, for the most part, market oriented. The Nordic Countries, the author argues, cannot therefore expect much from EU as regards alcohol policy. Rather, he concludes, it is the other way around. However, Article 129 of the Treaty of Maastricht could perhaps form the basis for a general EU health policy.
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Voller, Fabio, and Allaman Allamani. "Contextual Factors and Alcohol Consumption Control Policy Measures: The AMPHORA Study Background." Substance Use & Misuse 49, no. 12 (June 25, 2014): 1508–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10826084.2014.913438.
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Karlsson, Thomas, and Esa Österberg. "A scale of formal alcohol control policy in 15 European countries." Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 18, no. 1_suppl (February 2001): 117–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/145507250101801s01.
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Thomas Karlsson & Esa Österberg: A scale of formal alcohol control policy in 15 European countries As part of the alcohol control policy analysis of the ECAS project, this article reviews and discusses previous attempts to measure the strictness of alcohol control policies and to conduct a similar analysis in the ECAS countries. Based on the knowledge gathered from previous studies, we have created a scale of our own to measure the strictness of alcohol control policies and have applied it to the countries included in the ECAS project. The scales reviewed in this article and the scale we have constructed only measure the strictness of formal alcohol control. Drawing on the results of the ECAS scale, it seems that formal alcohol control in the EU member states has become stricter during the second half of the twentieth century. In the 1950s only three of the 15 countries were classified as having “high alcohol control”. In the year 2000 the number of high alcohol control countries had increased to six. The number of countries with low alcohol control had decreased from nine to zero between 1950 and 2000. Comparing the scores in the different countries or the average scores in all the ECAS countries over time is, however, problematic because the changes in these numbers reflect two different trends. On the one hand, there has been a decrease in the control of production and sales of alcoholic beverages or the regulation on alcohol availability. On the other hand, alcohol control measures targeted at demand or alcohol-related problems have become more prevalent. This means that alcohol control policies have become more similar in the ECAS countries in the second half of the twentieth century. Because of the limitations of the scale, however, we have to make certain reservations about the results and be very careful not to draw too far-reaching conclusions based solely on the results and rankings on the ECAS scale or any other scale for that matter. The scale and the results should therefore be considered as yet another attempt to quantify and rank alcohol control policies according to their strictness and not as an attempt to provide a perfect solution to a mission impossible.
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Johnson, Hope. "Investor-State Dispute Settlement and Tobacco Control: Implications for Non-communicable Diseases Prevention and Consumption-Control Measures." QUT Law Review 17, no. 2 (November 24, 2017): 102. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/qutlr.v17i2.709.
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Public health advocates and policy makers have long considered how to translate the successes of tobacco control measures to address alcohol abuse and the excessive consumption of ultra-processed and nutrient-poor foods. Correspondingly, the strategies adopted by tobacco companies to prevent or delay regulation often parallel those adopted by the alcohol and food industries. Philip Morris, a leading tobacco company, has recently used investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms as a new strategy to hinder or prevent tobacco control measures in the form of plain packaging requirements. The cases that followed may have implications for the development of novel consumption-control measures, like plain packaging laws, aimed at preventing non-communicable diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular disease. This paper considers how the challenges to tobacco control measures through ISDS mechanisms could affect the development of consumption-control measures aimed at reducing alcohol abuse and unhealthy food consumption for non-communicable disease prevention. Using the recent ISDS challenges by Philip Morris as case studies, this paper draws out lessons and issues for the future development of consumption-control measures.
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Khaltourina, Daria, and Andrey Korotayev. "Effects of Specific Alcohol Control Policy Measures on Alcohol-Related Mortality in Russia from 1998 to 2013." Alcohol and Alcoholism 50, no. 5 (May 11, 2015): 588–601. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agv042.
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Österberg, Esa. "The effects of favouring lower alcohol content beverages: Four examples from Finland." Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 29, no. 1 (February 2012): 41–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10199-012-0004-0.
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Aims This paper studies the possibility of substituting the consumption of one alcoholic beverage category for another by changing alcohol control measures. It examines four Finnish examples: the waiving in 1952 of the requirement to show a special identity card issued by the alcohol monopoly Alko for buying fortifed wines; again binding the sales of fortifed wines to Alko's identity card in 1958; a 1960s alcohol price policy favouring wines and beer over vodka; and the change in alcohol legislation in 1968, which allowed selling medium beer in grocery stores but left the off-premise sales of all stronger alcoholic beverages to Alko's liquor stores. Data Data on recorded consumption of alcoholic beverages in terms of 100 per cent alcohol per capita according to beverage categories will be used together with the numbers of arrests for drunkenness according to beverage categories as well as different data sources on changes in alcohol control measures. Results & Conclusions The four examples from Finland show that strong alcoholic beverages can be substituted for lighter drinks, but this seems to work especially when the lighter beverages can be used for the same purposes as the stronger ones. It is much more difficult to persuade consumers to substitute strong alcoholic beverages for light ones by changing relative alcohol availability or by adjusting prices, if the consumers also have to change their drinking habits by, for instance, substituting binging with vodka for drinking light wines with meals. The Finnish examples also make it clear that changing from one beverage category to another does not automatically result in changing the way to use alcoholic beverages or the drinking habits themselves.
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Baccini, Michela, and Giulia Carreras. "Analyzing and Comparing the Association Between Control Policy Measures and Alcohol Consumption in Europe." Substance Use & Misuse 49, no. 12 (May 15, 2014): 1684–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10826084.2014.914373.
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Madureira-Lima, Joana, and Sandro Galea. "Alcohol control policies and alcohol consumption: an international comparison of 167 countries." Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 72, no. 1 (October 23, 2017): 54–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2017-209350.
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BackgroundAlcohol control policy has a fundamental role in limiting negative health, economic and social harm caused by alcohol consumption. However, there is substantial international heterogeneity in country-level policy adoption, implementation and monitoring. Comparative measures so far focused on Europe or the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries.MethodsWe created an Alcohol Control Policy Index (ACPI) for 167 countries using five different methodological approaches. National policies were sourced from WHO’s Global Information System on Alcohol and Health. We assessed ACPI’s criterion-related validity by calculating the strength of the association among the different approaches. As for content validity, we tested whether the resulting scores explained variations in alcohol per capita consumption cross-nationally, controlling for gross domestic product, population age, urbanisation and world region using OLS and random coefficients models.ResultsIndex scores and ranks from different methodological approaches are highly correlated (r=0.99). Higher scores were associated with lower consumption across the five methods. For each 1 score increase in the ACPI, the reduction in per capita alcohol consumption varies from −0.024 L (95% CI (−0.043 to −0.004) to −0.014 L (95% CI (−0.034 to 0.005). We obtain larger coefficients and p values <0.005 when estimating random coefficients.ConclusionACPI offers a measure of alcohol control policy across countries that makes use of a larger number of countries than its predecessors, as well as a wider range of methodologies for its calculation, both of which contribute to its validity. Furthermore, it shows that the statutory strictness of alcohol control policies is associated with lower levels of alcohol consumption.
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Lehto, Juhani. "Alcohol Policy in the Changing Eastern Europe." Nordisk Alkoholtisdkrift (Nordic Alcohol Studies) 12, no. 1_suppl (February 1995): 61–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/145507259501201s04.
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Both alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems are, it is claimed, rapidly increasing problems in central and eastern Europe, due to the transition period. The article presents some available data and discusses the problems in making conclusions from rather inaccurate statistics. The second objective is to discuss the opportunities for effective alcohol policies, and the relevance of the studies made in established market economies, such as the Anglo-American and Scandinavian countries. An important condition for a control policy, the author concludes, is the re-establishment of a basic regulation of the alcohol market, now missing in these countries. Otherwise any policy measures will be ineffective or even counterproductive. The process will probably be different in different countries, due to differences in the economic restructuring and recovery, and to differences between the “beer”, “wine”, and “vodka” cultures.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Alcohol control policy measures"
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Wilson, Ryan Leslie. "Control measures in South Africa surrounding the tobacco and alcoholic beverage industry." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/22017.
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Thesis (MComm)--Stellenbosch University, 2008.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The tobacco industry of South Africa has fallen under strict legislation and control measures from the South African government since the passing of the initial Tobacco Products Control Act, 1993. Further amendments have been made to the initial act, namely Tobacco Products Control Amendment Act, 1999 and the proposed Tobacco Products Control Amendment Bill, 2004. This assignment emerges against the backdrop of the alcoholic beverage industry coming under similar scrutiny to that of the tobacco industry from government legislation and control measures The main objective of this assignment was to discover the similarities, if any, between the tobacco industry and the alcoholic beverage industry of South Africa, specifically with regard to their advertising practices before legislation. The purpose of this assignment is to discover whether or not the alcoholic beverage industry can learn from the example of the tobacco industry in order to maintain its self-regulation, rather than to fall under the control of State regulation and legislation. The literature and empirical study sought to achieve the following four objectives: 1.) To gain a thorough understanding of the tobacco legislation on a global scale; 2.) To analyse the control measures and legislation of tobacco in a South African context; 3.) To identify any similarities between the tobacco industry and alcoholic beverage industry of South Africa and 4.) To identify means in which the alcoholic beverage industry can work with the State in order to maintain the self-regulation of its industry. Findings indicate that similarities arise when comparing tobacco and alcohol, as both of them have addictive qualities, are often used from a very young age and both have laws prohibiting sale to minors. The success gained in South Africa with regard to anti-tobacco initiatives and government legislation since the introduction of the first Tobacco Act in 1993, has led to certain members of society feeling that similar, if not the same, strict strategies and / or legislative measures should be used to address the public health problems relating to alcohol.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die Suid-Afrikaanse tabaknywerheid val onder streng wetgewing en beheermaatreëls deur die Suid-Afrikaanse regering sedert die aanvanklike Wet op die Beheer van Tabakprodukte, 1993 aanvaar is. Verdere wysigings op die aanvanklike wet is aanvaar, naamlik die Wysigingswet op die Beheer van Tabakprodukte, 1999 en die voorgestelde Wysigingswetsontwerp op die Beheer van Tabakprodukte, 2004. Hierdie werk spruit voort teen die agtergrond van die alkoholdranknywerheid wat onder 'n soortgelyke soeklig geplaas is as die tabaknywerheid by wyse van regeringswetgewing en beheermaatreëls. Die hoofoogmerk van hierdie werk was om die ooreenkomste, indien enige, vas te stel tussen die tabaknywerheid en die alkoholdranknywerheid van Suid-Afrika, spesifiek met betrekking tot hul adverteringspraktyke vóór wetgewing. Die doel van hierdie werk was om vas te stel of die alkoholdranknywerheid uit die voorbeeld van die tabaknywerheid kan leer aldan nie, met die oog op die voortsetting van sy selfbeheer, eerder as om onder die beheer van Staatsregulering en wetgewing te val. Die bronmateriaal en empiriese studie was daarop toegespits om die volgende vier doelwitte te bereik: 1.) Om 'n behoorlike begrip te verkry van tabakwetgewing op 'n globale skaal; 2.) Om die beheermaatreëls en wetgewing oor tabak in 'n Suid-Afrikaanse konteks te analiseer; 3.) Om enige ooreenkomste tussen die tabak- en die alkoholdranknywerheid in Suid-Afrika te identifiseer en 4.) Om wyses te identifiseer waardeur die alkoholdranknywerheid met die Staat kan saamwerk om die selfbeheer van die nywerheid te behou. Bevindinge dui aan dat ooreenkomste wel ontstaan wanneer tabak en alkohol met mekaar vergelyk word, veral omdat albei verslawende eienskappe bevat, dikwels deur persone vanaf 'n baie jong ouderdom gebruik word en dat wetgewing albei verbied om aan minderjariges verkoop te word. Die sukses wat in Suid-Afrika rakende anti-tabakinisiatiewe en wetgewing behaal is sedert die inwerkingstelling van die eerste Wet op die Beheer van Tabak in 1993 het daartoe gelei dat sekere lede van die gemeenskap van mening is dat soortgelyke, indien nie dieselfde nie, streng strategieë en/of wetgewende maatreëls aangewend behoort te word om die openbare gesondheidsprobleme rakende alkohol aan te spreek.
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Šipaitė, Sandra. "Įrodymais grįsta politika: Alkoholio kontrolės politikos įgyvendinimas Lietuvoje." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2011. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2011~D_20110609_090026-44381.
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Darbas yra orientuojamas į opios šiandieninei Lietuvos visuomenei problemos sprendimą — alkoholio suvartojimo mastų ir su tuo susijusių pasekmių mažinimą Lietuvoje. Tuo tikslu darbe siekiama išanalizuoti Lietuvos alkoholio kontrolės politikos įgyvendinimo problematiką įrodymais grįstos politikos perspektyvoje. Viešųjų problemų efektyviam sprendimui didelę reikšmę turi moksliškai patvirtintos žinios, todėl pirmas ir antras darbo skyriai susiję su detalesne įrodymais grįstos politikos analize tiek tiriant bendrą jos reikšmę viešojoje politikoje, tiek ir jos reikšmę alkoholio kontrolės politikoje. Analizė grindžiama anglosaksų ir Skandinavijos šalių mokslininkų darbais, kadangi šiose šalyse mokslo naudojimas viešųjų problemų sprendimui, įskaitant ir didelio alkoholio suvartojimo visuomenėje problemos, gana paplitęs, akcentuojant, jog įrodymų naudojimas viešojoje politikoje, labai svarbus, siekiant suprasti politinę aplinką ir jos pokyčius, adekvačiai pažinti probleminę situaciją, tinkamai pasirinkti ir įgyvendinti geriausias politikos priemones, lemiančias efektyvius pasirinktos politikos rezultatus.
Remiantis Lietuvos teisės aktų analize ir Lietuvos mokslininkų darbais, trečiajame skyriuje nagrinėjama Lietuvos alkoholio kontrolės politikos sistema, siekiant įvertinti, kiek LR alkoholio kontrolės politikoje pritaikytinas įrodymais grįstos alkoholio kontrolės politikos priemonių vystymas, įvertinant ir pagrindines vyraujančias problemas, neleidžiančias alkoholio kontrolės... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]This study is about one of the most serious problems in Lithuania — reduction of huge alcohol consumption and related consequenses in Lithuania’s civil society. Accordingly, the aim of this study is to analyze the problematic implementation of alcohol control policy in Lithuania in accordance with the perspective of evidence-based policy. The public policy to be effective, it’s very important to use knowledge based on researches, so in the first and the second chapter this evidence-based perspective is analyzed, respectively, to examine its general importance to public policy itself and to alcohol control policy. This analysis is based on the studies of Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian scientists, because in these countries researches in public policy is used broadly, including alcohol control policy, emphasizing on the use of evidence to be very important in understanding the political environment and its changes, an adequate understanding of the problematic situation, the right choice, and the best practices of that policy, which all determine effective outcomes of that policy. According to Lithuanian legislation and the analyses of the studies, in the third chapter it is examining the system of alcohol control policy in Lithuania, to seek evaluate the problems, which occur in adopting evidence-based alcohol policy to Lithuania’s alcohol control policy. As it turned out, in Lithuania, the development of alcohol control policy infrastructure is adequately formulated (for example... [to full text]
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Egnoraitė, Vaida. "Alkoholio kontrolės politika Lietuvoje nuo 2004-ų metų: formavimas ir įgyvendinimas." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2012. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2012~D_20120703_145247-43094.
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Magistro baigiamajame darbe analizuojama šiuolaikinė Lietuvos alkoholio kontrolės politika. Stengdamasi atskleisti ir įvertinti Lietuvos alkoholio kontrolės politikos problemas, autorė atliko viešosios nuomonės tyrimą-apklausą, mokslinės literatūros analizę bei naudojo kitus mokslinius metodus. Darbe ne tik atskleidžiamas nepakankamas alkoholio kontrolės įgyvendinimas Lietuvoje, bet ir pateikiamos rekomendacijos, kaip jį pagerinti taikant efektyvias mokslu pagrįstas bei pasaulyje naudojamas alkoholio kontrolės priemones. Lietuvos gyventojai (apklausos rezultatų duomenimis) ir alkoholio kontrolės srities ekspertai alkoholio politiką šalyje vertina vidutiniškai. Daugelis Lietuvos gyventojų bei ekspertų pritartų griežtesnei alkoholio kontrolės politikai. Vienas iš didžiausių trukdžių įrodymais grįstai alkoholio politikai vystyti – aktyvi alkoholio pramonės įtaka šalyje.Master's thesis analyzes the contemporary Alcohol Control Policy of Lithuania. Author of the work conducted a public opinion survey-interview, used the analysis of scientific literature and other methods of research to disclose and evaluate the issues of the Lithuanian Alcohol Control Policy. The paper not only reveals the lack of implementation of alcohol control in Lithuania, but also provides guidance on how to improve it with/adapting the effective science-based and used globally alcohol control measures. Lithuanian residents (survey data) and alcohol-control experts have an average view of this policy. Many of them support the stronger alcohol control policy. One of the major constraints on evidence-based alcohol policy development – strong influence of the alcohol industry in the country.
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Harkins, Claire. "Who's driving drink policy? : alcohol control and multilevel governance." Thesis, University of Bath, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648953.
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Alcohol is an important economic and cultural commodity. It also represents a significant public health problem. Alcohol is the third greatest risk factor for the global disease burden even though half of the global population abstain. Currently alcohol control strategies are inadequate and unable to combat the health, social and economic problems caused by a legal drug that has become more widely available, more affordable and promoted aggressively. This thesis considers how alcohol control policy is governed, developed and implemented at global, European, UK and Scottish policy levels with specific focus on the role of the alcohol industry in this area. Contemporary modes of governance are increasingly characterised by a multi-agency partnership approach where unelected stakeholders, including corporate partners, contribute to the development and implementation of policy and of action out with policy. The research investigates the role of the alcohol industry within discourses and action in efforts to reduce alcohol related harm. It aims to identify alcohol industry action at global, European, UK and Scottish levels of authority in order to offer an overview of the extent of action and in turn its influence on policy discourses. The research provides an analysis of the alcohol industry as a political operator. The alcohol industry engages with, and in some respects is, a stakeholder active within public health policy circles in relation to alcohol control. This engagement spans science, research, corporate social responsibility, philanthropy, lobbying and direct engagement within official policy circles. The thesis uses the alcohol industry as a case study that highlights a need for research on how influence is wielded by corporate interests within policy circles. There is acknowledgement in various theoretical accounts on governance that changing modes of governance have resulted in the creation of a space for non-state actors within policy circles. However, thereafter, the role of corporate actors is habitually underestimated and even overlooked all together. The argument presented here is that the role of powerful economic interests is rapidly gaining significance as a factor in policy making. This must be explored further in order to ascertain the extent of the influence and the ways in which economic actors exert influence. Methodologically the research examines policy documents, and industry communications as well as adopting an investigative approach to the strategies and agendas of a variety of policy stakeholders. The outcome is a narrative derived from a synthesis of existing sources that explores the area of alcohol control policy which focuses on the involvement of corporate stakeholders with a clear conflict of interest within the process of developing health policy in relation to alcohol. The results indicate that the influence of corporate actors represents a significant and growing threat to the development and implementation of effective evidence based alcohol control policy. Overall the research is intended to make a contribution to academic and public debates on governance and to support public health efforts to reduce alcohol related harm. It attempts to explore the accumulation of corporate action over multiple levels of authority and to describe and evaluate the effects of this accumulative action on public health policy in relation to alcohol.
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Ugland, Trygve. "Policy re-categorization and integration : Europeanization of Nordic alcohol control policies /." Oslo : Arena, 2002. http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/508366755.pdf.
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Nyagwachi, Abel Otwori. "Essays on the economics of tobacco and alcohol control policy in Kenya." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Commerce, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30875.
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This thesis uses data from Kenya to contribute to the literature on tobacco and alcohol control policies in low and middle-income countries. The thesis uses the two most recent household and budget surveys (2005/6 and 2015/16), to examine some of the effects of the tobacco and alcohol control policies that were implemented in Kenya between 2005 and 2015. Chapter 2 considers the impact of consumption and taxation of tobacco and alcohol on household spending patterns. An instrumental variable approach is used in the estimation of the difference in spending patterns, between tobacco-consuming (alcohol-consuming) households and households that do not consume tobacco (alcohol). Following the precedent of some other studies, the adult sex ratio is used as an instrumental variable for the tobacco and alcohol consumption status of households. However, the adult sex ratio may not meet the exclusion restriction. In order to address this concern, I change the specification of the instrumental variable and relax the exclusion restriction. As a result, the upper and lower bounds of the difference in expenditure shares between households that consumed tobacco (alcohol) and the households that did not consume tobacco (alcohol) are estimated. A natural experiment involving tobacco and alcohol taxes occurred during the data collection period of one of the household surveys: the excise tax on tobacco and alcohol was increased during the data collection phase. A matched difference-in-differences (MDID) technique is used to estimate the implication of a tobacco (alcohol) tax increase on household spending patterns. The pseudo-panel generated from MDID also provided a new way of controlling for possible endogeneity arising from time-invariant unobservable variables. Therefore, MDID is used as a new approach, for comparing household spending patterns of tobacco-consuming (alcohol-consuming) households with those of households that do not consume tobacco (alcohol). The price and non-price tobacco-control policies that were implemented between 2005/6 and 2015/16 contributed to a decrease in household tobacco use prevalence. However, alcohol-control policies implemented over the same period did not successfully reduce the overall prevalence of alcohol consumption among Kenyan households. Tobacco- and alcohol-consuming households were found to spend less on education, energy, rent, healthcare, and food items. MDID results confirmed that tobacco and alcohol consuming households had lower expenditure shares on items necessary for human capital development. The increase in tobacco taxes did not have an impact on household spending patterns among tobacco-consuming households. However, an increase in taxes on alcohol led to further crowding out of expenditure on fruits. Chapter 3 uses the risk of child malnutrition in Kenya, to examine the effectiveness of tobacco and alcohol control policies, in reducing tobacco and alcohol consumption prevalence among vulnerable households. Past studies in this literature did not explicitly control for cluster/village level factors that may affect child nutrition. A multilevel/mixed effects logit and general equations estimation logit model are used to estimate the difference in the risk of child malnutrition, between households that consumed tobacco and alcohol and those that did not consume the two goods. The two models account for the possibility of correlation in nutritional outcomes for children living in the same cluster/village. The two methods also allowed for the inclusion of contextual effects that could inform public health policy in Kenya. In 2005/6 the odds of long-term child malnutrition were higher for children living in tobacco and alcohol consuming households in rural Kenya. The tobacco and alcohol control policies implemented between 2005/6 and 2015/16 were more effective in reducing tobacco and alcohol consumption prevalence among the poorest rural households. As a result, the decrease in child malnutrition prevalence was greater among households that consumed tobacco and alcohol. In 2015/16 the risk of child malnutrition in tobacco and alcohol consuming households was similar to that of non-consuming households. The results from chapter 3 indicate that tobacco and alcohol control policies that were implemented in Kenya over the ten-year period, contributed to the reduction in consumption of the two goods among the poorest rural households. Therefore, very poor households invested resources, which could have been used for tobacco/alcohol consumption, on human capital development. Chapter 2 and chapter 3 provide evidence on some of the opportunity costs associated with tobacco/alcohol consumption as well as potential benefits that may arise from controlling consumption of the two goods. Subsequently, Chapter 4 focuses on the price elasticity of demand for tobacco and alcohol products. Tax-induced price increases is one of the most effective policy tools for controlling the demand for the two goods. The effectiveness of price policy in controlling demand for tobacco and alcohol may be hindered by among other things, the consumption of informally produced alcohol and noncigarette tobacco products as well as other stimulants. Majority of the relatively few studies done on African countries were on South Africa and most of them estimated the price elasticity of demand for cigarettes and formally produced alcohol products. Further, I am not aware of any peer-reviewed study that has estimated the price elasticity of demand for alcohol and tobacco products in Kenya. Household survey data is used to estimate the own-price and expenditure elasticities (as proxies for income elasticities) of demand for tobacco and alcohol products in Kenya. The responsiveness of the demand for informally produced alcohol as well as non-cigarette tobacco products to changes in prices of cigarettes and formally produced beers is also estimated. This thesis also estimates the responsiveness of demand for khat to changes in the price of cigarettes and formally produced beers. Khat is a stimulant mostly consumed in Arabia and the Horn of Africa. One of the concerns about the use of taxes as a measure to control tobacco and alcohol consumption is the possible regressive nature of tobacco and alcohol taxes. Therefore, chapter 4 also examines the impact of price and non-price tobacco- and alcohol-control policies on the regressivity/progressivity of household tobacco and alcohol burdens (budget shares). Tobacco-control policies implemented between 2005/6 and 2015/16, contributed to a reduction in the regressivity of household tobacco budget shares. The changing profile of tobacco consuming households as well as economic growth over the period may have also contributed to the increase in the estimated price elasticity of demand for cigarettes. Over the ten-year period, the estimated price elasticity of demand for cigarettes increased from -0.63 to -0.42. Khat and snuff tobacco were found to be complements for cigarettes. Khat and informally produced spirits were found to be substitutes for formally produced beers. Further, the demand for formally produced beers was found to be price elastic. The alcohol-control policies that were implemented over the ten-year period, contributed to a reduction in the regressivity of overall alcohol budget shares. However, over the ten-year period, there was a rapid increase in demand for spirits in Kenya.
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Cochran, Glenn A. "Influences on University Staff Members Responsible for Implementation of Alcohol-Control Policies." Thesis, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10267439.
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Excessive college student drinking is a complex problem associated with a range of consequences including deaths, injuries, damage, health risks, legal difficulties, and academic problems. State governing boards, trustees and executives have enacted policies aimed at reducing the negative effects of excessive drinking. This study examined influences on university staff members responsible for implementation of alcohol-control policies. Deeper understanding of factors influencing alcohol-control policy implementation may help leaders improve policy making, implementation and attainment of policy objectives.
This mixed methods study utilized a sequential transformative mixed methods strategy with a quantitative survey, sequenced first, informing the prioritized qualitative multiple case study. Research was conducted at two public universities selected from a single state. In the quantitative phase students (n=1,252) completed a survey measuring student support for 33 alcohol-control measures. Staff (n=27) responsible for policy implementation completed a survey estimating student support for alcohol-control measures. Survey data informed development of the case study interview protocol. In the qualitative phase ten interviews were conducted at each case study site.
The study’s theoretical and conceptual model was based upon Pressman and Wildavsky’s (1973) implementation framework and Kotter’s (1996) eight-stage process for leading change. Findings from the quantitative phase of the study revealed strong levels of support for alcohol-control policies at both campuses while staff members generally underestimated student support for alcohol-control policies. The key findings that emerged after coding case study data included the influences of: (a) executive leadership; (b) leadership transitions and policy saliency; (c) cognition and sensemaking; and, (d) anchoring changes in culture. Student support for alcohol-control policies was found to have no direct influence on staff members responsible for implementation of alcohol control policies.
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Mort, Victoria. "Control, empowerment and change in the work of voluntary organizations : an ethnographic study of agencies working with single homeless people in Oxford." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325287.
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Daugalaitė, Inga. "Europos alkoholio kontrolės politika: Lietuvos ir Švedijos atvejo analizė." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2009. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2009~D_20090609_152209-13931.
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Europos šalys neša sunkią socialinę ir ekonominę su alkoholio vartojimu susijusių problemų naštą. Įvairios ligos, jaunų žmonių mirtys, nusikaltimai, autoavarijos – tai yra tipiškos alkoholio vartojimo pasekmės, kurios, atsižvelgiant į paskutinius tyrimus ir publikacijas žiniasklaidoje, padidėjo. Tad svarbu, kad valstybės vykdytų griežtesnę alkoholio kontrolę.
Tyrimo tikslas: išanalizuoti alkoholio kontrolės politiką ir įgyvendinimą Lietuvoje ir Švedijoje, apžvelgiant ir pristatant pagrindines alkoholio politikos priemones, palyginti Lietuvos ir Švedijos alkoholio reguliavimo politikos priemones tarpusavyje. Šiame darbe nuspręsta Švedijos alkoholio reguliavimo politiką pasirinkti kaip gerosios praktikos pavyzdį. Švedijoje griežtos alkoholio gamybos bei prekybos ribojimo istorinės tradicijos susiformavo gan anksti.
Tyrimo metodai: Šiame darbe bus naudojami keli tyrimo metodai. Teorinėje dalyje vyrauja aprašomasis analitinis metodas. Be kiekybinės ir kokybinės pirminių ir antrinių duomenų analizės, nuspręsta taikyti ir lyginamąją analizę. Tyrime atliktas kokybinis alkoholio ekspertų Lietuvoje ir Švedijoje struktūruotas interviu, iš viso buvo apklausti šeši asmenys.
Darbą sudaro keturios pagrindinės dalys. Pirmoje dalyje teoriškai įtvirtinamas konceptualus darbo pagrindas analizuojant pagrindines politinio reguliavimo teorijas susijusias su alkoholio reguliavimu. Antroje darbo dalyje analizuojamos svarbiausios Lietuvos alkoholio politikos reguliavimo priemonės. Trečioje dalyje... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]Problem of investigation: Europe countries carries a heavy social and economic burden of alcohol related problems. Various diseases, dying too young, crimes, car accidents – these are the typical consequences of alcohol consumption that according to the latest investigations and publications in media have increased. So countries should make more restrictive alcohol control policy. Purpose of investigation – to analyze Lithuania and Sweden alcohol control policy and to compare their implements. In this investigation Sweden alcohol control policy was choose as a good practice example. Sweden has historically pursued a restrictive alcohol policy with the overall purpose of limiting total consumption and with the alcohol related harms in society. For the analysis of investigation were used primary sources such as interviews. Were interviewed six people, who are specialist in Lithuania and Sweden alcohol control policy. Also were used previous research on alcohol policy, news articles, EU documents, Swedish and Lithuanian alcohol policy-related documents, WHO reports and web pages. Master Thesis is made from four main parts. In first part is analyzing policy regulation theories, which are used in alcohol regulation. In second part is analyzing Lithuania alcohol regulation implements. The third part of Thesis analyzing Sweden alcohol control regulation implements. The fourth part is comparison of Lithuania and Sweden alcohol policies and their implements. Justify these... [to full text]
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Bosque, Prous Marina 1984. "Alcohol consumption in people aged 50 or older in Europe." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/523488.
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Hazardous drinking in the elderly has become an important public health problem due to the ageing of the population and the fact that alcohol-related consequences are magnified in this age group. However, to date, few studies examine hazardous drinking in people aged 50 years or older and the factors associated with alcohol use.
The aim of this thesis is to quantify hazardous drinking in people aged 50 years or older in Europe, according to gender and country, and to analyze the possible individual and contextual factors related to such consumption.
Throughout the thesis, the source of information was the European project SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe), which includes data from different European countries. This thesis consists of five articles that attempt to respond to the different specific objectives.
The results suggest that the prevalence of hazardous drinking in people aged 50 years or older is around 22%, with variations between countries. These variations can be explained by individual factors, such as age or gender, and various contextual factors, such as alcohol advertising restrictions and the unemployment rate. Finally, one of the contextual aspects that may have had more impact in recent years is the economic crisis. We found that, in people aged 50 to 64 years, the incidence of hazardous drinking was greater in those who lost their jobs. However, from 2006 to 2013 there has been a decrease in hazardous drinking and also in the average amount of alcohol consumed in people aged 50 to 64 years in Europe.El consum de risc d'alcohol en la gent gran s'ha convertit en un important problema de salut pública degut a l’envelliment de la població i al fet que les conseqüències adverses del consum es magnifiquen en aquest grup d'edat. No obstant això, són pocs els estudis que analitzen el consum de risc d'alcohol en persones majors de 50 anys i els factors que s'associen al consum de risc. L'objectiu d'aquesta tesi és quantificar el consum de risc d'alcohol en persones de 50 anys o més a Europa segons gènere i país i analitzar els possibles factors individuals i contextuals relacionats amb aquest consum. Per tota la tesi, la font d'informació van ser les enquestes del projecte europeu SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe), amb dades de diferents països d’Europa. La tesi consisteix en 5 articles que intenten respondre als diferents objectius específics. Els resultats suggereixen que la prevalença de consum de risc d'alcohol en les persones de 50 anys o més està al voltant del 22%, amb variacions entre països, que poden explicar-se per factors individuals, com el sexe o l’edat, i per diversos factors contextuals, com les restriccions en la publicitat de les begudes alcohòliques o la taxa d'atur. Finalment, un dels aspectes contextuals que pot haver tingut més impacte en els darrers anys és la crisi econòmica. El que hem vist és que en persones de 50 a 64 anys la incidència de consum de risc d’alcohol era major en aquells que havien perdut la feina. Tanmateix, durant el període de 2006 a 2013 s’ha produït una davallada en el consum de risc d’alcohol i en la mitjana de la quantitat consumida en persones de 50 a 64 anys a Europa.
Books on the topic "Alcohol control policy measures"
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Approaches to alcohol control policy. Copenhagen: World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, 1995.
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World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia. Alcohol control policies in the South-East Asia region: Selected issues. New Delhi: World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2006.
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Prohibition or control: Making sense of alcohol policy debates in Mizoram. Aizwal: Lengchhawn Press, 2014.
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Paying the tab: The economics of alcohol policy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
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The politics of sin: Drugs, alcohol, and public policy. Armonk, N.Y: M.E. Sharpe, 1994.
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Alcohol and the media. Copenhagen: World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, 1996.
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United States. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. Explosives usage policy. [Washington, D.C.?]: Dept. of the Treasury, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, 1985.
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Ferreira, Monica. Incentives and disincentives: An overview of measures to achieve demographic objectives. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council, 1986.
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Peter, Anderson. Evaluation and monitoring of action on alcohol: Targets, indicators, and monitoring and reporting systems for action on alcohol. Copenhagen: World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, 1995.
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Room, Robin. The effects of Nordic alcohol policies: What happens to drinking and harm when alcohol controls change? Helsinki: Nordic Council for Alcohol and Drug Research, 2002.
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Schrad, Mark L. "Dodging the Bullet: Alcohol-Control Policy in Sweden." In Dual Markets, 221–35. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65361-7_14.
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Tabuchi, Takahiro. "Policy Implication Including Interference in Tobacco Control Measures with New Tobacco Products." In Science and Practice for Heated Tobacco Products, 89–96. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4504-1_10.
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Liang, Yin-Li, An-Rong Luo, and Lan Mu. "Policies and Measures of Chinese Local Government on Grain-for-Green Policy and Desertification Control." In Ecological Research Monographs, 161–72. Tokyo: Springer Japan, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54481-4_12.
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Hackley, Chris, Andrew Bengry-Howell, Christine Griffin, Willm Mistral, and Isabelle Szmigin. "Young Peoples’ Binge Drinking Constituted as a Deficit of Individual Self-control in UK Government Alcohol Policy." In Discourses of Deficit, 293–308. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230299023_16.
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Bindseil, Ulrich, and Alessio Fotia. "Conventional Monetary Policy." In Introduction to Central Banking, 29–51. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70884-9_3.
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AbstractThis chapter introduces conventional monetary policy, i.e. monetary policy during periods of economic and financial stability and when short-term interest rates are not constrained by the zero lower bound. We introduce the concept of an operational target of monetary policy and explain why central banks normally give this role to the short-term interbank rate. We briefly touch macroeconomics by outlining how central banks should set interest rates across time to achieve their ultimate target, e.g. price stability, and we acknowledge the complications in doing so. We then zoom further into monetary policy operations and central bank balance sheets by developing the concepts of autonomous factor, monetary policy instruments, and liquidity-absorbing and liquidity providing balance sheet items. Subsequently we explain how these quantities relate to short-term interest rates, and how the central bank can rely on this relation to steer its operational target, and thereby the starting point of monetary policy transmission. Finally, we explain the importance of the collateral framework and related risk control measures (e.g. haircuts) for the liquidity of banks and for the conduct of central bank credit operations.
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Kostina, N. N. "Anti-crisis Measures of State Scientific and Technical Regional Policy for the Purpose of Revival and Development of Technopoles." In Smart Technologies and Innovations in Design for Control of Technological Processes and Objects: Economy and Production, 240–47. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18553-4_31.
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Jamrozik, Euzebiusz, and Michael J. Selgelid. "Surveillance and Control of Asymptomatic Carriers of Drug-Resistant Bacteria." In Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health, 183–201. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27874-8_12.
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Abstract Drug-resistant bacterial infections constitute a major threat to global public health. Several key bacteria that are becoming increasingly resistant are among those that are ubiquitously carried by human beings and usually cause no symptoms (i.e. individuals are asymptomatic carriers) until a precipitating event leads to symptomatic infection (and thus disease). Carriers of drug-resistant bacteria can also transmit resistant pathogens to others, thus putting the latter at risk of infections that may be difficult or impossible to treat with currently available antibiotics. Accumulating evidence suggests that such transmission occurs not only in hospital settings but also in the general community, although much more data are needed to assess the extent of this problem. Asymptomatic carriage of drug-resistant bacteria raises important ethical questions regarding the appropriate public health response, including the degree to which it would be justified to impose burdens and costs on asymptomatic carriers (and others) in order to prevent transmission. In this paper, we (i) summarize current evidence regarding the carriage of key drug-resistant bacteria, noting important knowledge gaps and (ii) explore the implications of existing public health ethics frameworks for decision- and policy-making regarding asymptomatic carriers. Inter alia, we argue that the relative burdens imposed by public health measures on healthy carriers (as opposed to sick individuals) warrant careful consideration and should be proportionate to the expected public health benefits in terms of risks averted. We conclude that more surveillance and research regarding community transmission (and the effectiveness of available interventions) will be needed in order to clarify relevant risks and design proportionate policies, although extensive community surveillance itself would also require careful ethical consideration.
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Engel, Janina, Michela Nardo, and Michela Rancan. "Network Analysis for Economics and Finance: An Application to Firm Ownership." In Data Science for Economics and Finance, 331–55. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66891-4_14.
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AbstractIn this chapter, we introduce network analysis as an approach to model data in economics and finance. First, we review the most recent empirical applications using network analysis in economics and finance. Second, we introduce the main network metrics that are useful to describe the overall network structure and characterize the position of a specific node in the network. Third, we model information on firm ownership as a network: firms are the nodes while ownership relationships are the linkages. Data are retrieved from Orbis including information of millions of firms and their shareholders at worldwide level. We describe the necessary steps to construct the highly complex international ownership network. We then analyze its structure and compute the main metrics. We find that it forms a giant component with a significant number of nodes connected to each other. Network statistics show that a limited number of shareholders control many firms, revealing a significant concentration of power. Finally, we show how these measures computed at different levels of granularity (i.e., sector of activity) can provide useful policy insights.
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Mikkelsen, Bent Egberg, and Collins Momanyi Bosire. "Food, Sustainability, and Science Literacy in One Package? Opportunities and Challenges in Using Aquaponics Among Young People at School, a Danish Perspective." In Aquaponics Food Production Systems, 597–606. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15943-6_23.
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AbstractThe call for sustainable food production and consumption has led to an increased interest and new policy measures to support the circular economy and climate-smart farming practices. The merits of aquaponics and closed-loop nutrient cycling systems are increasingly being examined in terms of sustainable productivity in various settings including urban environments. Aquaponics also has the potential to be applied as a learning tool for people of all ages but especially for young people at school. This chapter studies the potential of aquaponics to teach food and science literacy and the use of the technology as an educational tool in primary school. The chapter draws on data from the Growing Blue & Green (GBG) program carried out in cooperation among Aalborg University, Copenhagen, municipal schools and their teachers and a private aquaponic enterprise. The chapter draws on three empirical studies including an exploratory study on the educational opportunities at school, a feasibility study carried out among teachers, as well as the educational Growing Blue & Green (eGBG) study, in which a digital-based regulation component was added. The conclusion is that low-cost versions of aquaponics have considerable potential for supportive learning in elementary school. Preliminary findings furthermore suggest that fitting the setup with easy-to-install intelligent sensors and devices offers the opportunity to provide learning about food, sustainability, and a basic understanding of the control and management of biological systems in one package.
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Kisusu, R. W., N. Kalimang'asi, N. Macha, and J. L. Mzungu. "Effects of Alcohol Policy on Population Variables and Control Measures." In Substance Abuse and Addiction, 179–89. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7666-2.ch009.
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This case study of Dodoma Municipal Council focuses on the application of statistical tools to establish Population Variables (PVs) affected by alcohol and suggested control measures. The establishment relied on primary data involving a sample size of 156 respondents selected through purposive sampling and analyzed by cross-tabs and Chi-square. The analysis found alcohol policy affects mostly the lower-educated population, small householders and youths, and these were significant at 0.029, 0.002, and 0.006 levels, respectively. The inferences drawn shows within PVs, alcohol reduces students' performances, influences separation of families, and increases poverty in the households, and all were significant at 0.003, 0.028, and 0.003, respectively. The findings conclude that alcohol affects all PVs, which consequently ends up deteriorating welfare. Therefore, to combat alcohol, the chapter recommends usage policy legal measures and educating the masses on the effect of alcohol.
Conference papers on the topic "Alcohol control policy measures"
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Gambaryan, Marine, Anna Kalinina, Marina Popovich, Michail Starovoytov, and Oxana Drapkina. "Can tobacco control policy measures motivate smokers to quit? Results from Russian tobacco control policy evaluation survey EPOCHA-RF." In ERS International Congress 2019 abstracts. European Respiratory Society, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1183/13993003.congress-2019.pa4473.
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Lalere, Béatrice, Fanny Gantois, Rosemarie Philipp, and Sophie Vaslin-Reimann. "Certified reference materials for breath alcohol control - the ALCOREF project." In 19th International Congress of Metrology (CIM2019), edited by Sandrine Gazal. Les Ulis, France: EDP Sciences, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/metrology/201915002.
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The Joint Research Project Alcoref “Certified forensic alcohol reference materials” is a multi-partner trans-national project within the targeted call “Research Potential” of the European Metrology Programme for Innovation and Research (EMPIR) launched in 2016. The European Commission has estimated that about one quarter of road traffic deaths are due to alcohol. The European status report on road safety of the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe therefore stated that, among other measures, better legislation and enforcement of alcohol control is needed in several countries. In particular, the report demands that unrestricted access to alcohol breath testing, using breath analysers of equivalent and agreed standard, should be implemented throughout Europe. These high standards for tests, verification and calibration of breath alcohol analysers should meet some requirements of the recommendation R 126 defined by the International Organization of Legal Metrology (OIML) and European standards (EN 16280 and EN 15964). The specific objective of this project is to establish regional research and metrological capacity for the development of certified forensic alcohol reference materials for the law enforcement of drink-driving regulations.
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Wang, Zhihua, John O’Brien, Pranav Shrotriya, and Qingze Zou. "Mesoscale Large Frequency-Range Characterization of the Elastic Modulus of Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) Hydrogel Using a Control-Integrated Indentation System." In ASME 2011 Summer Bioengineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sbc2011-53807.
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Due to the desirable properties like biocompatibility and solubility in water, Poly (Vinyl Alcohol) (PVA) has been widely utilized in a broad range of areas including material research, biomedicine and pharmacy. Although its mechanical properties have been widely studied, few of the previous work has focused on its frequency dependent elastic modulus. In this paper, the frequency dependent elastic modulus of PVA samples (based on the physical crosslinking method) at mesoscale was investigated in experiments. An indentation system is designed and developed. And moreover, a recently-developed iterative-learning control technique is utilized to compensate for the hardware effect on the force-indentation measurement, and thereby, substantially increases the measurement frequency range. Then the Hertzian contact model is employed to obtain, from the measured force-indentation data, the elastic modulus of a PVA sample for the frequency range of 1 to 25 Hz.
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Paulson, C. K. "Westinghouse AP1000 Advanced Plant Simplification Results, Measures, and Benefits." In 10th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. ASMEDC, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone10-22784.
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A clear distinction between advanced plants, such as the Westinghouse AP1000 and AP600, and evolutionary plants is the policy in the latter to use current systems’ and buildings’ configurations. This approach does not promote simplification or streamlining, especially in the mechanical systems of the plant. The most significant simplification in evolutionary designs has arguably been in the plant electronics where compact digital components and multiplexing have led to improvements, especially in the areas of information display, installation, and testing. The Westinghouse advanced, passive plants take a different approach. Their design engineers presume that if regulatory requirements can be satisfied by using passive systems, then active plant systems that are only designed to meet plant control functions and not burdened with meeting a safety pedigree can be implemented. This separation of safety and control allows the plant designer to focus on systems’ optimization and reliability by reducing complexity and its associated cost. This design policy has led Westinghouse to the AP600 and AP1000 plant configurations, both of which incorporate significant improvements in areas of plant simplification and enhanced safety.
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Negi, Keizo, Keizo Negi, Takuya Ishikawa, Takuya Ishikawa, Kenichiro Iba, and Kenichiro Iba. "MEASURES FOR ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION IN ENCLOSED COASTAL SEAS." In Managing risks to coastal regions and communities in a changing world. Academus Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.21610/conferencearticle_58b4316091bec.
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Japan experienced serious water pollution during the period of high economic growth in 1960s. It was also the period that we had such damages to human health, fishery and living conditions due to red tide as much of chemicals, organic materials and the like flowing into the seas along the growing population and industries in the coastal areas. Notable in those days was the issues of environment conservation in the enclosed coastal seas where pollutants were prone to accumulate inside due to low level of water circulation, resulting in the issues including red tide and oxygen-deficient water mass.
In responding to these issues, we implemented countermeasures like effluent control with the Water Pollution Control Law and improvement/expansion of sewage facilities. In the extensive enclosed coastal seas of Tokyo Bay, Ise Bay and the Seto Inland Sea, the three areas of high concentration of population, we implemented water quality total reduction in seven terms from 1979, reducing the total quantities of pollutant load of COD, TN and TP. Sea water quality hence has been on an improvement trend as a whole along the steady reduction of pollutants from the land. We however recognize that there are differences in improvement by sea area such as red tide and oxygen-deficient water mass continue to occur in some areas. Meanwhile, it has been pointed out that bio-diversity and bio-productivity should be secured through conservation/creation of tidal flats and seaweed beds in the view point of “Bountiful Sea”
To work at these challenges, through the studies depending on the circumstances of the water environment in the enclosed coastal seas, we composed “The Policy of Desirable State of 8th TPLCS” in 2015. We have also added the sediment DO into the water quality standard related to the life-environmental items in view of the preservation of aquatic creatures in the enclosed water areas.
Important from now on, along the Policy, is to proceed with necessary measures to improve water quality with good considerations of differences by area in the view point of “Beautiful and bountiful Sea”.
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Negi, Keizo, Keizo Negi, Takuya Ishikawa, Takuya Ishikawa, Kenichiro Iba, and Kenichiro Iba. "MEASURES FOR ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION IN ENCLOSED COASTAL SEAS." In Managing risks to coastal regions and communities in a changing world. Academus Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.31519/conferencearticle_5b1b940c149362.66419597.
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Japan experienced serious water pollution during the period of high economic growth in 1960s. It was also the period that we had such damages to human health, fishery and living conditions due to red tide as much of chemicals, organic materials and the like flowing into the seas along the growing population and industries in the coastal areas. Notable in those days was the issues of environment conservation in the enclosed coastal seas where pollutants were prone to accumulate inside due to low level of water circulation, resulting in the issues including red tide and oxygen-deficient water mass.
In responding to these issues, we implemented countermeasures like effluent control with the Water Pollution Control Law and improvement/expansion of sewage facilities. In the extensive enclosed coastal seas of Tokyo Bay, Ise Bay and the Seto Inland Sea, the three areas of high concentration of population, we implemented water quality total reduction in seven terms from 1979, reducing the total quantities of pollutant load of COD, TN and TP. Sea water quality hence has been on an improvement trend as a whole along the steady reduction of pollutants from the land. We however recognize that there are differences in improvement by sea area such as red tide and oxygen-deficient water mass continue to occur in some areas. Meanwhile, it has been pointed out that bio-diversity and bio-productivity should be secured through conservation/creation of tidal flats and seaweed beds in the view point of “Bountiful Sea”
To work at these challenges, through the studies depending on the circumstances of the water environment in the enclosed coastal seas, we composed “The Policy of Desirable State of 8th TPLCS” in 2015. We have also added the sediment DO into the water quality standard related to the life-environmental items in view of the preservation of aquatic creatures in the enclosed water areas.
Important from now on, along the Policy, is to proceed with necessary measures to improve water quality with good considerations of differences by area in the view point of “Beautiful and bountiful Sea”.
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Boggs, Christopher M., Fernando D. Goncalves, and Mehdi Ahmadian. "Steady-State Energy Transfer of a Semi-Active Suspension Under Hybrid Control." In ASME 2004 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2004-59642.
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Magnetorheological (MR) fluids are often characterized by their field-dependent yield stress. Upon the activation of a magnetic field, the fluid has the ability to change from a fluid state to a semi-solid state in milliseconds. The field-dependent yield stress and the fluid’s fast response time make MR fluid an attractive technology for many applications. One such application that has gained considerable attention is in MR fluid dampers. The real-time control possibilities make MR dampers attractive alternatives to conventional viscous dampers. In comparing passive dampers with MR dampers, an equivalent viscous damping coefficient is often found from the energy dissipated by the MR damper with a fixed current applied to the damper. In contrast, this study investigates energy dissipation of the MR damper under a semi-active hybrid control policy. Hybrid control is a linear combination of skyhook and groundhook control. This study investigates the system energy under steady-state conditions at three frequencies, and how the system energy varies with varying contributions from skyhook and groundhook. A quarter-car rig was used to evaluate the dynamics of the hybrid suspension using an MR damper. Previous studies have shown that hybrid control can offer advantages to both the sprung and unsprung masses; however the relationship between energy dissipation and performance is not clear. In this study, we compare control policy performance to several energy-based measures. Results indicate that there is a strong correlation between sprung mass RMS acceleration and unsprung mass RMS acceleration to several of the energy-based measures.
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McDonald, Dale B., and Joseph O. Falade. "Parameter Identification in Ecological Systems via Discontinuous and Singular Control Regimes." In ASME 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2012-86063.
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Policy decisions regarding commercial harvesting of aquatic species by (typically governmental) regulatory agencies are often based in part upon field data, simulation results, and mathematical models. Regulatory agencies may limit or expand seasons, determine total harvest allowed, increase or decrease licensure fees, and raise or lower taxation rates in response to the state of the ecological system. Ultimately, the regulatory agency uses such measures to ensure viable populations in an attempt to balance ecosystem health and benefits for society. Such decisions impact commercial fishing ventures affecting the nature of harvesting efforts and their intensity. Conclusions drawn from mathematical models of ecological systems, and derived simulation results which affect this reality are highly dependent upon the validity of information available. Knowledge or estimates of critical parameters such as intrinsic growth rate, carrying capacity, etc. and dynamic variables such as biomass levels dictate the usefulness of analytical and numerical analyses. The purpose of this treatment is to illustrate that control laws applied to mathematical models of species dynamics may be used to discern estimates of parameters that inherently exist in such models in an effort to provide more valuable information upon which to base policy decisions. Dynamic models of both single-species evolution and predator-prey interactions are examined.
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Firth, Caislin, Rachana Seelam, Anthony Rodriguez, Regina Shih, Joan Tucker, Elizabeth D'Amico, and Eric Pedersen. "The Cannabis Retail Environment for Young Adults in Los Angeles: Which Metrics Matter." In 2020 Virtual Scientific Meeting of the Research Society on Marijuana. Research Society on Marijuana, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.26828/cannabis.2021.01.000.7.
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Background: Currently, there is no consensus on how to measure cannabis retailer density. Researchers and policy makers need clear measures to support policies that mitigate unintended harms of legalization. To address this gap, our unique study leverages cannabis retailer location data in Los Angeles County (LA), California, and home addresses from an LA-based cohort of young adults (21-25 years) to develop a series of cannabis retailer density metrics and assess their relationship with cannabis use. Methods: Drawing from GIS-based measures of alcohol outlet density, we developed a series of cannabis retailer density metrics: proximity, counts within 5- 10- 15-, and 30-minute driving distances, and considered retail licensure. Retailer addresses were compiled by webscraping cannabis registries (e.g. Weedmaps) and conducting field visits (March 2019). Home addresses were geocoded for participants who completed a 2019 survey (n 1097). A series of retailer metrics was created for each person. We fit a series of multi-level logistic regression models with a random intercept by census tract (CT) (models adjusted for age, gender, race/ethnicity, college student, and CT median household income) to assess which retailer metrics were associated with any past month cannabis use. Results: Thirty percent of participants used cannabis in the past month, and 430 retailers were operating in LA in 2019. Thirty-nine percent of participants had a retailer within a mile from home and an average of 14 retailers within a 10-minute drive. Licensed retailers were less prevalent; the nearest licensed retailer was on average 2.4 miles from home. The odds of past month cannabis use significantly increased by 3% (OR:1.03, 95% CI:1.00–1.07) for every additional licensed retailer within a 10-minute drive in adjusted model; use was also significantly associated with licensed retailers within a 30-minute drive (OR:1.01, 95% CI:1.00–1.01). Proximity metrics were not significantly associated with past month cannabis use.
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Yu, Zhun, and Songling Wang. "Energy Policy and Sustainability: A Case Study Applying Energy Management Contract in China." In ASME 2007 Energy Sustainability Conference. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2007-36038.
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This article states the energy policies, especially Energy Management Control (EMC), and relative measurements in recent ten years in China. In order to identify the effectiveness of these energy policies in the industrial sector in China, a project using EMC on a circulation cool water system was described as well as its energy-conserving results. The results indicated that the pump head was higher than what the system needed, namely electric energy would be wasted since the output of pumps cannot match pipe resistance pressure, also, based on the test data, the system water flow was larger than the design parameter, the main reason, besides the pump head, was that the pumps cannot be adjusted effectively so that technical personnel can only meet the needs through different combination pumps, nevertheless, by this method it was impossible to adjust water flow accurately. Furthermore, the water chilling units were influenced by scaling because of the quality of circulating water, thus their resistance pressure was increased greatly. Additionally, the cooling capacity of cooling tower was also decreased and some components need to be replaced. According to problem diagnosis, corresponding measures, such as changing pumps, adopting frequency control and water treatment, were performed, and annual power consumption was reduced from 1970000 kWh to 960000 kWh while annual power rate was reduced from 1190000 yuan to 580000 yuan. The results of the present work implied that EMC can accelerate the implementation of energy conservation projects, therefore, this system is quite feasible and its development is prospective in China.
Reports on the topic "Alcohol control policy measures"
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Myrttinen, Henri. Connecting the Dots: Arms Control, Disarmament and the Women Peace and Security Agenda. UNIDIR, October 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.37559/gen/20/01.
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Connecting the Dots examines the normative and practical overlaps and connections of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda with the field of arms control and disarmament. Using an original approach to gender-responsive arms control and disarmament measures that is structured around the four WPS pillars of participation, prevention, protection, and relief and recovery, this report identifies current best practices and areas for further action. The report shows that further integration can bring benefits for both fields. For the arms control and disarmament community, the WPS pillars give structure and guidance to the comprehensive integration of gender perspectives, which thus far has been a piecemeal effort. For WPS policy actors and practitioners, engaging with arms control and disarmament helps to operationalize the WPS agenda, giving concrete substance to each of its pillars.
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Stall, Nathan M., Kevin A. Brown, Antonina Maltsev, Aaron Jones, Andrew P. Costa, Vanessa Allen, Adalsteinn D. Brown, et al. COVID-19 and Ontario’s Long-Term Care Homes. Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, January 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.47326/ocsat.2021.02.07.1.0.
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Key Message Ontario long-term care (LTC) home residents have experienced disproportionately high morbidity and mortality, both from COVID-19 and from the conditions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. There are several measures that could be effective in preventing COVID-19 outbreaks, hospitalizations, and deaths in Ontario’s LTC homes, if implemented. First, temporary staffing could be minimized by improving staff working conditions. Second, homes could be further decrowded by a continued disallowance of three- and four-resident rooms and additional temporary housing for the most crowded homes. Third, the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection in staff could be minimized by approaches that reduce the risk of transmission in communities with a high burden of COVID-19. Summary Background The Province of Ontario has 626 licensed LTC homes and 77,257 long-stay beds; 58% of homes are privately owned, 24% are non-profit/charitable, 16% are municipal. LTC homes were strongly affected during Ontario’s first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. Questions What do we know about the first and second waves of COVID-19 in Ontario LTC homes? Which risk factors are associated with COVID-19 outbreaks in Ontario LTC homes and the extent and death rates associated with outbreaks? What has been the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the general health and wellbeing of LTC residents? How has the existing Ontario evidence on COVID-19 in LTC settings been used to support public health interventions and policy changes in these settings? What are the further measures that could be effective in preventing COVID-19 outbreaks, hospitalizations, and deaths in Ontario’s LTC homes? Findings As of January 14, 2021, a total of 3,211 Ontario LTC home residents have died of COVID-19, totaling 60.7% of all 5,289 COVID-19 deaths in Ontario to date. There have now been more cumulative LTC home outbreaks during the second wave as compared with the first wave. The infection and death rates among LTC residents have been lower during the second wave, as compared with the first wave, and a greater number of LTC outbreaks have involved only staff infections. The growth rate of SARS-CoV-2 infections among LTC residents was slower during the first two months of the second wave in September and October 2020, as compared with the first wave. However, the growth rate after the two-month mark is comparatively faster during the second wave. The majority of second wave infections and deaths in LTC homes have occurred between December 1, 2020, and January 14, 2021 (most recent date of data extraction prior to publication). This highlights the recent intensification of the COVID-19 pandemic in LTC homes that has mirrored the recent increase in community transmission of SARS-CoV-2 across Ontario. Evidence from Ontario demonstrates that the risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks and subsequent deaths in LTC are distinct from the risk factors for outbreaks and deaths in the community (Figure 1). The most important risk factors for whether a LTC home will experience an outbreak is the daily incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infections in the communities surrounding the home and the occurrence of staff infections. The most important risk factors for the magnitude of an outbreak and the number of resulting resident deaths are older design, chain ownership, and crowding. Figure 1. Anatomy of Outbreaks and Spread of COVID-19 in LTC Homes and Among Residents Figure from Peter Hamilton, personal communication. Many Ontario LTC home residents have experienced severe and potentially irreversible physical, cognitive, psychological, and functional declines as a result of precautionary public health interventions imposed on homes, such as limiting access to general visitors and essential caregivers, resident absences, and group activities. There has also been an increase in the prescribing of psychoactive drugs to Ontario LTC residents. The accumulating evidence on COVID-19 in Ontario’s LTC homes has been leveraged in several ways to support public health interventions and policy during the pandemic. Ontario evidence showed that SARS-CoV-2 infections among LTC staff was associated with subsequent COVID-19 deaths among LTC residents, which motivated a public order to restrict LTC staff from working in more than one LTC home in the first wave. Emerging Ontario evidence on risk factors for LTC home outbreaks and deaths has been incorporated into provincial pandemic surveillance tools. Public health directives now attempt to limit crowding in LTC homes by restricting occupancy to two residents per room. The LTC visitor policy was also revised to designate a maximum of two essential caregivers who can visit residents without time limits, including when a home is experiencing an outbreak. Several further measures could be effective in preventing COVID-19 outbreaks, hospitalizations, and deaths in Ontario’s LTC homes. First, temporary staffing could be minimized by improving staff working conditions. Second, the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection in staff could be minimized by measures that reduce the risk of transmission in communities with a high burden of COVID-19. Third, LTC homes could be further decrowded by a continued disallowance of three- and four-resident rooms and additional temporary housing for the most crowded homes. Other important issues include improved prevention and detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection in LTC staff, enhanced infection prevention and control (IPAC) capacity within the LTC homes, a more balanced and nuanced approach to public health measures and IPAC strategies in LTC homes, strategies to promote vaccine acceptance amongst residents and staff, and further improving data collection on LTC homes, residents, staff, visitors and essential caregivers for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic. Interpretation Comparisons of the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in the LTC setting reveal improvement in some but not all epidemiological indicators. Despite this, the second wave is now intensifying within LTC homes and without action we will likely experience a substantial additional loss of life before the widespread administration and time-dependent maximal effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines. The predictors of outbreaks, the spread of infection, and deaths in Ontario’s LTC homes are well documented and have remained unchanged between the first and the second wave. Some of the evidence on COVID-19 in Ontario’s LTC homes has been effectively leveraged to support public health interventions and policies. Several further measures, if implemented, have the potential to prevent additional LTC home COVID-19 outbreaks and deaths.