Relating off‐premises alcohol outlet density to intentional and unintentional injuries

Morrison, Christopher N.; Smith, Karen; Gruenewald, Paul J.; Ponicki, William R.; Lee, Juliet P.; Cameron, Peter

doi:10.1111/add.13098

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“…In the latter case, this work can lead to a much deeper understanding of ecological impacts. For example, it is becoming apparent that outlets are related to violent assaults on quite small spatial scales [17], to motor vehicle collisions at local and city‐wide scales [18,19], and that they have different topological relationships to populations in urban versus rural areas [12,13]. Much of the variation in study results, glossed over by the analyses presented in Gmel et al ., may be due to these issues.…”

Section: Ecological Bias and The Modifiable Areal Unit Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Commentary on Gmel et al. (2015): Are alcohol outlet densities strongly associated with alcohol‐related outcomes? A critical review of recent evidence

Morrison

Cerdá

Gorman

et al. 2015

Drug and Alcohol Review

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Section: Ecological Bias and The Modifiable Areal Unit Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Commentary on Gmel et al. (2015): Are alcohol outlet densities strongly associated with alcohol‐related outcomes? A critical review of recent evidence

Morrison

Cerdá

Gorman

et al. 2015

Drug and Alcohol Review

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“…Evidence indicates associations between increased consumption of alcohol at home and multiple health and social harms, not only for the drinker but also for other family and household members. There are links between the availability of alcohol for off‐premise consumption and harms such as traumatic injury and domestic violence , and between the consumption of alcohol in the home and intimate partner violence . Furthermore, witnessing drinking in the home may have negative impacts on children and adolescents , such as ‘normalising’ negative alcohol experiences and influencing future drinking behaviours .…”

Section: Drinking At Home—what Are the Risks?mentioning

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Accessibility of ‘essential’ alcohol in the time of COVID‐19: Casting light on the blind spots of licensing?

Reynolds

Wilkinson

2020

Drug and Alcohol Review

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Among the Australian and UK governments' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic has been the designation of outlets selling alcohol for off-premise consumption as 'essential' services, allowing them to remain open while pubs, hotels and restaurants have been forced to close. In a context of restrictions on movement outside the home in both countries, and where alcohol providers are trying to find new ways to reach their customers, this may lead to an intensification of the social and health harms associated with home drinking. By examining the current situation in both Australia and the UK, we argue that heightened risks from home drinking amid COVID-19 bring into sharp focus long-standing weaknesses within licensing systems in both countries: the regulation of off-premise outlets to minimise harms from drinking at home. We call for critical conversations on how licensing systems should be revised to take more responsibility for protecting people from the health and social harms associated with home drinking, both under COVID-19 and in the future. [Reynolds J, Wilkinson C. Accessibility of 'essential' alcohol in the time of COVID-19: Casting light on the blind spots of licensing?. Drug Alcohol Rev 2020;39: [305][306][307][308]

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“…Mortality from alcohol-related harm is higher in areas of highest density compared to areas of low density with evidence from the UK (Richardson et al 2015), Canada (Stockwell et al 2011) and Switzerland (Spoerri et al 2013). Morbidity, including hospitalisations, emergency department visits and injuries have also been found to be higher in areas of highest alcohol outlet density (Cunradi et al 2012;Morrison et al 2015;Richardson et al 2015).…”

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Alcohol Risk Environments, Vulnerability, and Social Inequalities in Alcohol Consumption

Shortt

Rind²,

Pearce

et al. 2018

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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Alcohol and alcohol related harm are key public health challenges. Research has shown that individual level factors, such as age and sex, are important predictors of alcohol consumption, but such factors provide only a partial account of the drivers of consumption. In this paper we argue that individual level factors interact with features of the 'risk environment' to increase the vulnerability of individuals to such environments. Features of the alcohol 'risk environment' include the density of alcohol premises in a neighbourhood. Previous research has shown that neighbourhoods with a higher density of alcohol outlets have higher levels of both alcohol consumption and alcohol related harm. There has however been a distinct lack of attention paid to the differential ways in which particular socio-demographic groups may be more vulnerable to such 'risk environments'. In this paper we address the risk environment through a primary focus on the local supply and availability of alcohol products (captured using a measure of outlet density) and the relationship with the harmful use of alcohol. Using responses to the Scottish Health Survey (2008-2011) we explore vulnerability through the interaction between individual level socioeconomic position, measured using household income, and environmental risk to assess differential social vulnerability to such environments. We report findings showing that those in the lowest income groups may be disproportionately affected by outlet density. This evidence suggests that risk environments may not affect us all equally and that there may be socially differentiated vulnerability to such environments.

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Relating off‐premises alcohol outlet density to intentional and unintentional injuries

Cited by 38 publications

References 58 publications

Commentary on Gmel et al. (2015): Are alcohol outlet densities strongly associated with alcohol‐related outcomes? A critical review of recent evidence

Commentary on Gmel et al. (2015): Are alcohol outlet densities strongly associated with alcohol‐related outcomes? A critical review of recent evidence

Accessibility of ‘essential’ alcohol in the time of COVID‐19: Casting light on the blind spots of licensing?

Alcohol Risk Environments, Vulnerability, and Social Inequalities in Alcohol Consumption

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