Scotland has highest britain's alcohol-related deaths. In this presentation, it is showed a project conducted in the city of Edinburgh which is focused on the study of alcohol outlet density, health inequalities and policy translations.
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Alcohol outlet density, health inequalities and policy traslation: findings from the UK
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Alcohol outlet density, health
inequalities and policy translation:
findings from the UK
Professor Jamie Pearce
Chair in Health Geography
Centre for Research on Environment, Society and Health
University of Edinburgh
@jamie0pearce
jamie.pearce@ed.ac.uk
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Structure
• Geographies of alcohol
• Alcohol retail environment
• Alcohol environment and
health in Scotland
• Research translation
• What is missing?
Geographical Contribution
Pbase.com
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Place and Alcohol
• Individual behavioural perspectives
• BUT partial account for social & cultural
factors integral to understanding drinking.
• policy response – ‘lifestyle drift’ rather than
considered in wider context
• Drinking enabled & constrained by socio-
geographical factors
• reality of drinking in everyday life
• how public health messages received,
negotiated & mediated
• Individual factors and environments interact to
produce spaces that are more or less
favourable to drinking
• neighbourhoods, schools, workplaces, etc.
Geographical factors &
alcohol
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Inequalities as central
RESEARCH AIMS
• Scottish study examining:
• social & spatial distribution of alcohol
retailing
• associations between the geographies of
alcohol retailing and
(i) alcohol consumption
Assess whether these patterns vary by individual level
socio-economic status
(ii) related health outcomes
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Methods
Controlled for sex, age, religion, marital & socio-economic status, urbanity, neighbourhood deprivation
ALCOHOL OUTLET DATA
• Premises selling alcohol
licensed under the Licensing
(Scotland) Act 2005
• Postcodes of all licensed
premises (16,159) from
Liquor Licensing Boards
(4,800 off-sales and 11,359
on-sales)
• Created a density measure
at the data zone level for the
whole of Scotland for total
outlets, off-sales outlets and
on-sales outlets
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Problem drinking
0.10
0.11
0.12
0.15
0.08
0.09
0.11
0.10
0.09
0.09 0.09 0.08
0.05
0.07
0.09
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0.15
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Predictedprobabilityofproblemdrinking
Lowest Income Middle Income Highest Income
Alcohol outlet density:
mortality and morbidity
• Alcohol-related deaths
between 2002 and 2011
from General Register
Office for Scotland
(GROS) n=12,835
• Alcohol-related
hospitalisation indicator
from the Health domain of
the Scottish Index of
Multiple Deprivation 2012
(SIMD)
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Alcohol-related death rates for off-sales outlet
availability groups
Increasing Density
Alcohol-related hospitalisations for off-sales
availability groups
Increasing Density
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Summary
• The lowest income groups are disproportionately affected
by outlet density compared to both mid and higher income
groups.
• For all outcomes there is an increase in probability for the
lowest income tertile between the lowest and highest outlet
density.
• No significant increase for the highest or middle income
tertiles for any outcome, regardless of type of outlet.
• Alcohol-related death rates in neighbourhoods with the most
alcohol outlets were more than double the rates in those with
the fewest outlets.
• Across the whole of Scotland, alcohol-related hospitalisation
rates were significantly higher in neighbourhoods with the
most alcohol outlets.
Broader research translation
• Making data publically
available
• Twitter, presentations etc
• Blogs
• Infographics
• Commendation in the Scottish
Parliament supported by 27
MSPs
• Amendment proposed to a bill
to create retailers register
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Policy message
• Interventions that focus on changing individual behaviour
alone, ignoring broader context, will not work.
• Interventions must be designed to reduce inequalities,
otherwise they may increase the very inequalities they aim to
tackle.
• Tackling alcohol-related harm requires a multi-pronged
approach.
• Data should be freely available.
• Need to address the retail environment; in a Scottish context
this means defining overprovision and more clearly supporting
the public health licensing objective. How does this translate
in an Irish context?
• Failure to do so may exacerbate health inequalities.
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Biggest challenges
• Public opinion and how it is shaped – Stigma
(including place based stigma)
• Understanding the causal pathway between
environment and health behaviours
• Evidence into policy - conversations
What is lacking?
• Critical global health
• Longitudinal/lifecourse approaches
• Activity spaces
• A focus on co-behaviours (smoking, diet etc)
• A greater focus on inequalities
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What is lacking?
• Critical global health
• Longitudinal/lifecourse approaches
• Activity spaces
• A focus on co-behaviours (smoking, diet etc)
• A greater focus on inequalities
Availability of Alcohol AND
Tobacco by deprivation
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Funders
• Niamh Shortt, Richard Mitchell,
Catherine Tisch, Elizabeth
Richardson, Tom Clemens &
Esther Rind.
• This work was supported by
the European Research
Council [ERC-2010-StG Grant
263501]. The work developing
the tobacco outlet measures
was supported by the Scottish
Collaboration for Public Health
Research and Policy
(SCPHRP).
• All data available at
www.cresh.org.uk/webmap
• Twitter @jamie0pearce