Alcohol consumption and injury in Western Australia: a spatial correlation analysis using geographic information systems

Midford, Richard; Masters, Lisa; Phillips, Michael; Daly, Alison; Stockwell, Tim; Gahegan, Mark; Philp, Alan

doi:10.1111/j.1467-842x.1998.tb01149.x

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“…There is substantial evidence that alcohol availability is correlated with levels of consumption and ultimate harm (Midford et al, 1998;Stockwell, 1997;Waller et al, 2002). Availability of alcohol can be controlled by restrictions on hours and days of sales, and by controlling the number, location, and type of liquor outlets.…”

Section: Organizational Interventionsmentioning

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Preventing Alcohol-Related Traffic Injury: A Health Promotion Approach

Howat¹,

Sleet

Elder

et al. 2004

Traffic Injury Prevention

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The conditions that give rise to drinking and driving are complex, with multiple and interrelated causes. Prevention efforts benefit from an approach that relies on the combination of multiple interventions. Health promotion provides a useful framework for conceptualizing and implementing actions to reduce drinking and driving since it involves a combination of educational, behavioral, environmental, and policy approaches. This review draws on data from a range of settings to characterize the effectiveness of various interventions embedded within the health promotion approach. Interventions considered part of the health promotion approach include: (1) economic interventions (2) organizational interventions, (3) policy interventions, and (4) health education interventions, including the use of media, school and community education, and public awareness programs. Effective health promotion strengthens the skills and capabilities of individuals to take action and the capacity of groups or communities to act collectively to exert control over the determinants of alcohol-impaired driving. There is strong evidence for the effectiveness of some components of health promotion, including economic and retailer interventions, alcohol taxation, reducing alcohol availability, legal and legislative strategies, and strategies addressing the servers of alcohol. There is also evidence for the effectiveness of sobriety checkpoints, lower BAC laws, minimum legal drinking age laws, and supportive media promotion programs. Other interventions with moderate evidence of effectiveness include restricting alcohol advertising and promotion, and actions involving counter advertising. Health education interventions alone that have insufficient evidence for effectiveness include passive server training programs, school drug and alcohol education programs, community mobilization efforts, and health warnings. Because each intervention builds on the strengths of every other one, ecological approaches to reducing alcohol-impaired driving using all four components of the health promotion model are likely to be the most effective. Settings such as schools, workplaces, cities, and communities offer practical opportunities to implement alcohol-impaired driving prevention programs within this framework.

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Section: Organizational Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 95%

Preventing Alcohol-Related Traffic Injury: A Health Promotion Approach

Howat¹,

Sleet

Elder

et al. 2004

Traffic Injury Prevention

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“…Geographic information systems (GIS), used principally as visualization tools, are also increasingly popular in public health research. Both spatial analysis and GIS have been effectively applied in many areas of health care, including psychiatry (e.g., Chaix, Merlo, Subramanian, Lynch, & Chauvin, 2001) and substance abuse (Latkin, Glass, & Duncan, 1998;Midford et al, 1998). Despite its emergence as a significant public health concern (Korn, 2001), problem gambling has seen fewer applications of these methods.…”

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Mapping the prevalence of problem gambling and its association with treatment accessibility and proximity to gambling venues

Rush

Veldhuizen

Adlaf

2007

JGI

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This study examined geographic variation in the prevalence of problem gambling in Ontario and the association with various demographic factors and proximity to treatment for problem gambling and gambling venues. Drawing upon multiple sources, secondary data analysis was undertaken based on multivariate statistical methods and techniques of geographic information systems (GIS).Regional variation in prevalence of problem gambling was found in the province. Prevalence of problem gambling was associated with many demographic characteristics, as well as mental disorders, co-occurring substance abuse problems, and physical health status. Geographic access to treatment was not associated with the risk of being a problem gambler. However, proximity to gambling venues was marginally important in predicting risk of problem gambling. Results are interpreted in the context of needs-based planning of treatment and prevention programs for problem gambling.

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“…In Australia and overseas, rates of alcohol-related hospitalizations are typically greater for men than women [2 5,7], with higher injury rates for younger adults and higher rates of disease hospitalizations for older adults [3,7]. Within Australia, higher rates of alcohol-related hospitalizations have been observed in rural and remote areas [8,9].…”

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Patterns and trends in alcohol‐related hospitalizations in Victoria, Australia, 1987/88–1995/96

Hanlin

Jonas

Laslett

et al. 2000

Drug and Alcohol Review

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The objective of this study was to examine patterns and yearly trends in alcohol-related hospitalization rates during the period 1987/88-1995/96 for men and women living in metropolitan and rural/remote Victoria. Alcohol-related hospitalizations were extracted from the Victorian Inpatient Minimum Dataset (VMD) for the years 1987/88-1995/96 (public hospitals) and 1993/94-1995/96 (private hospitals), and adjusted by the appropriate aetiological fractions. Sex-specific age-adjusted rates we expressed per 10000 residents/year. During 1993/94-1995/96, alcohol-related hospitalizations comprised 1.0% of all Victorian hospitalizations (about 12000/year), with men accounting for over two-thirds of alcohol-related hospitalizations. Approximately half of the alcohol-related hospitalizations were for disease conditions and the other half for external cause (injury) conditions. About 80% of all alcohol-related hospitalizations were to public hospitals, with the exception of alcohol dependence (63% to private hospitals). Alcohol-related hospitalization rates were generally higher for people living in rural/remote areas compared to urban areas. During 1987/88-1995/96, the age-adjusted alcohol-related hospitalization rates in public hospitals did not change significantly for disease conditions (14.8-14.7 for men and 6.3-6.4 for women) or female external cause conditions (6.7-6.1), but decreased for external cause conditions (18.4-15.5). In private hospitals during 1993/94-1995/96, the age-adjusted alcohol-related hospitalization rates for disease conditions decreased (5.4-4.1 for men and 3.7-3.0 for women) but increased for external cause conditions (1.8-2.4 for men and 1.0-1.2 for women). These patterns and time-trends in Victorian alcohol-related hospitalizations reflect a combination of alcohol-related morbidity levels, hospital admission practices and patterns and levels of service provision. They suggest a potential need to focus on services and programmes in rural/remote Victoria.

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Alcohol consumption and injury in Western Australia: a spatial correlation analysis using geographic information systems

Cited by 26 publications

References 5 publications

Preventing Alcohol-Related Traffic Injury: A Health Promotion Approach

Preventing Alcohol-Related Traffic Injury: A Health Promotion Approach

Mapping the prevalence of problem gambling and its association with treatment accessibility and proximity to gambling venues

Patterns and trends in alcohol‐related hospitalizations in Victoria, Australia, 1987/88–1995/96

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