Evaluating the Impact of Alcohol Policy on Suicide Mortality: A Sex-Specific Time-Series Analysis for Lithuania.
Shannon LangeHuan JiangMindaugas ŠtelemėkasAlexander TranCheryl CherpitelNorman GiesbrechtNijole Gostautaite MidttunDomantas JasilionisMark S KaplanJakob MantheyZiming XuanJürgen RehmPublished in: Archives of suicide research : official journal of the International Academy for Suicide Research (2021)
Alcohol control policies involving pricing, which result in a notable decrease in alcohol affordability, could be a cost-effective indirect suicide prevention mechanism in not only countries of the former Soviet Union, but in other high-income countries with a comparable health care system to that in Lithuania. HIGHLIGHTSIncreasing excise tax on alcohol was found to have a sex-specific impact on suicide mortalityThe 2017 alcohol policy prevented 57 deaths by suicide among men, 25-74 years of age, in the following yearAlcohol pricing policies may be a cost-effective indirect suicide prevention mechanism.