Drink, but don't drive? The alcohol industry's involvement in global road safety
| Autor: | Connie Hoe, Abdulgafoor M. Bachani, Niloufer Taber, Sarah Champagne |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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commercial determinants of health
medicine.medical_specialty Automobile Driving Alcohol Drinking Alcohol industry Best practice Poison control Occupational safety and health 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Injury prevention medicine Humans AcademicSubjects/MED00860 030212 general & internal medicine 030505 public health drink-driving business.industry Health Policy Public health Commerce Human factors and ergonomics industry interference Original Articles Public relations Policy Conceptual framework Public Health 0305 other medical science business Alcohol road safety |
| Zdroj: | Health Policy and Planning |
| ISSN: | 1460-2237 |
| Popis: | Drink-driving is a major cause of global road traffic fatalities, yet few countries have laws that meet international best practices. One possible reason is the alcohol industry’s opposition to meaningful policies that are perceived to directly threaten sales. Our primary objectives are to document alcohol industry involvement in global road safety policies and programmes and to critically evaluate the responses of public health and road safety communities to this involvement. Under the guidance of the Policy Dystopia Model, we used a mixed methods approach in which data were gathered from expert interviews and a mapping review of 11 databases, 5 watchdog websites and 7 alcohol industry-sponsored initiatives. Triangulation was used to identify points of convergence among data sources. A total of 20 expert interviews and 94 documents were analysed. Our study showed that the alcohol industry acknowledges that drink-driving is an issue but argues for solutions that would limit impact on sales, akin to the message ‘drink—but do not drive’. Industry actors have been involved in road safety through: (1) coalition coupling and decoupling, (2) information production and management, (3) direct involvement in policymaking and (4) implementation of interventions. Our study also shed light on the lack of cohesion within and among the public health and road safety communities, particularly with regard to the topics of receiving funding from and partnering with the alcohol industry. These results were subsequently used to adapt the Policy Dystopia Model as a conceptual framework that illustrates the ways in which the alcohol industry has been involved in global road safety. Several implications can be drawn from this study, including the urgent need to increase awareness about the involvement of the alcohol industry in road safety and to build a cohesive transnational alcohol control advocacy alliance to curb injuries and deaths related to drink-driving. |
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