Effectiveness of implementing the criminal administrative punishment law of drunk driving in China: An interrupted time series analysis, 2004-2017

Fei, Gaoqiang; Li, Xinyu; Sun, Qin; Qian, Yingjing; Stallones, Lorann; Xiang, Henry; Zhang, Xujun

doi:10.1016/j.aap.2020.105670

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“…Enhanced regulation enforcement after May 2011 further contributes to the increasingly significant impacts of drunk driving regulations. The success of new drunk driving intervention depends not only the detailed descriptions of the definition and the punishment of drunk driving regulations, but also the strict regulation enforcement, such as more frequent and systematic random breath testing of drivers and the cooperation of residents which can be achieved by public education, propaganda, and awareness campaigns [8,11,14]. Our findings highlight the importance of integrated intervention measures and strict enforcement for achieving the expected effects.…”

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confidence: 76%

“…Previous studies have shown that regulations related to drunk driving reduced the number of road traffic injuries and deaths in some countries, such as Canada, Chile, and United States and China [6][7][8][9]. These previous studies commonly used the autoregressive integrated moving average with exogenous variable (i.e.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For instance, various distributions that are appropriate for counts data can be chosen, such as quasi-Poisson distribution and negative binomial distribution [11,14]. In addition, existing studies often examined the time-invariant intervention effect based on weekly/ monthly/annual instead of daily road traffic-related data [7,8,15]. However, the effect of drunk driving regulations is very likely to change over time as relevant regulations may be introduced successively and the strength of regulation enforcement might vary across time.…”

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“…To effectively reduce the adverse consequences of drunk driving, the Chinese government has adopted increasingly strict regulations and the regulation enforcement has been enhanced significantly. The landmark amendment of criminalizing driving after drunkenness (blood alcohol concentration (BAC) ≥ 0.08%) and increasing penalties for drunk driving (0.02% ≤ BAC < 0.08%) beginning on May 1, 2011, was one of the most important interventions to combat drunk driving in China [8,18]. Evaluation of the effectiveness of drunk driving regulations is of great significance for policy making and adjustment in China and other countries.…”

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Time-varying effect of drunk driving regulations on road traffic mortality in Guangzhou, China: an interrupted time-series analysis

Hua

et al. 2021

BMC Public Health

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Background China has introduced a series of stricter policies to criminalize drunk driving and increase penalties since May 2011. However, there is no previous study examining the time-varying impacts of drunk driving regulations on road traffic fatalities based on daily data. Methods We collected 6536 individual data of road traffic deaths (RTDs) in Guangzhou from 2008 to 2018. The quasi-Poisson regression models with an inclusion of the intervention variable and the interaction of intervention variable and a function of time were used to quantify the time-varying effects of these regulations. Results During the 11-year study period, the number of population and motor vehicles showed a steady upward trend. However, the population- and motor vehicles- standardized RTDs rose steadily before May 2011, the criminalizing drunk driving intervention was implemented and gradually declined after that. The new drunk driving intervention were associated with an average risk reduction of RTDs (ER = -9.01, 95% eCI: − 10.05% to − 7.62%) during the 7.7 years after May 2011. On average, 75.82 (95% eCI, 54.06 to 92.04) RTDs per 1 million population annually were prevented due to the drunk driving intervention. Conclusion These findings would provide important implications for the development of integrated intervention measures in China and other countries attempting to reduce traffic fatalities by stricter regulations on drunk driving.

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Time-varying effect of drunk driving regulations on road traffic mortality in Guangzhou, China: an interrupted time-series analysis

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BMC Public Health

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“…The Road Traffic Safety Law of the People's Republic of China, revised in 2011, has been amended to impose harsher penalties. Based on blood alcohol concentration (BAC), the law imposed different punishments for drinking and driving (20 mg/100 mL≤BAC<80 mg/100 mL) and drunk driving (BAC≥80 mg/100 mL), including flat fines, penalty points, mandatory treatment, license suspension/revocation, imprisonment, short-term detention, and criminal penalty (11). Furthermore, drunk driving is listed in criminal law since 2011.…”

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Time to Take Actions to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol in China

Bai

et al. 2021

China CDC Weekly

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Harmful use of alcohol negatively impacts and harms the drinkers, the people around them, and society at large. Harmful use of alcohol ranks among the top 5 risk factors for disease, disability, and death worldwide, and alcohol consumption is related to approximately 230 health conditions including infectious disease, noncommunicable diseases, and injuries (1-2). DISEASE BURDEN OF ALCOHOLWorldwide, alcohol use was responsible for some 3 million deaths (5.3% of all deaths) and 132.6 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) (5.1% of all DALYs) in 2016 (2). In China, alcohol caused 381,200 deaths and decreased people's life expectancy by an average of 0.43 years in 2013 (3). In that year, in terms of population attributable risk of deaths, 44.56% of cirrhosis, 28.80% of esophageal cancer, 27.65% of nasopharyngeal cancer, 27.45% of epilepsy, and 25.13% of liver cancer were attributable to alcohol consumption in China (3). Disturbingly, the burden of disease and injuries resulting from alcohol consumption increased rapidly in China. According to the global burden of disease (GBD) study, from 1990 to 2017, the total number of DALYs and the agestandardized DALY rate due to alcohol consumption increased by 58.51% and 16.02%, respectively (4).

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Studies of the effectiveness of transport sector interventions in low‐ and middle‐income countries: An evidence and gap map

Malhotra

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Cruz³

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Campbell Systematic Reviews

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Background There are great disparities in the quantity and quality of infrastructure. European countries such as Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, and the UK have close to 200 km of road per 100 km2, and the Netherlands over 300 km per 100 km2. By contrast, Kenya and Indonesia have <30, Laos and Morocco <20, Tanzania and Bolivia <10, and Mauritania only 1 km per 100 km2. As these figures show, there is a significant backlog of transport infrastructure investment in both rural and urban areas, especially in sub‐Saharan Africa. This situation is often exacerbated by weak governance and an inadequate regulatory framework with poor enforcement which lead to high costs and defective construction. The wellbeing of many poor people is constrained by lack of transport, which is called “transport poverty”. Lucas et al. suggest that up to 90% of the world's population are transport poor when defined as meeting at least one of the following criteria: (1) lack of available suitable transport, (2) lack of transport to necessary destinations, (3) cost of necessary transport puts household below the income poverty line, (4) excessive travel time, or (5) unsafe or unhealthy travel conditions. Objectives The aim of this evidence and gap map (EGM) is to identify, map, and describe existing evidence from studies reporting the quantitative effects of transport sector interventions related to all means of transport (roads, rail, trams and monorail, ports, shipping, and inland waterways, and air transport). Methods The intervention framework of this EGM reframes Berg et al's three categories (infrastructure, prices, and regulations) broadly as infrastructure, incentives, and institutions as subcategories for each intervention category which are each mode of transport (road, rail trams and monorail, ports, shipping, and inlands waterways, and air transport). This EGM identifies the area where intervention studies have been conducted as well as the current gaps in the evidence base. This EGM includes ongoing and completed impact evaluations and systematic reviews (SRs) of the effectiveness of transport sector interventions. This is a map of effectiveness studies (impact evaluations). The impact evaluations include experimental designs, nonexperimental designs, and regression designs. We have not included the before versus after studies and qualitative studies in this map. The search strategies included both academic and grey literature search on organisational websites, bibliographic searches and hand search of journals. An EGM is a table or matrix which provides a visual presentation of the evidence in a particular sector or a subsector. The map is presented as a matrix in which rows are intervention categories (e.g., roads) and subcategories (e.g., infrastructure) and the column outcome domains (e.g., environment) and subcategories as (e.g., air quality). Each cell contains studies of the corresponding intervention for the relevant outcome, with links to the available studies. Included studies were coded according to the interve...

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Effectiveness of implementing the criminal administrative punishment law of drunk driving in China: An interrupted time series analysis, 2004-2017

Cited by 28 publications

References 29 publications

Time-varying effect of drunk driving regulations on road traffic mortality in Guangzhou, China: an interrupted time-series analysis

Time-varying effect of drunk driving regulations on road traffic mortality in Guangzhou, China: an interrupted time-series analysis

Time to Take Actions to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol in China

Studies of the effectiveness of transport sector interventions in low‐ and middle‐income countries: An evidence and gap map

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