ban on alcohol sales Research Papers (original) (raw)
This review scrutinized the accident situations in Nigeria, which precipitated the Federal Government’s ban on sales of alcoholic drinks in all motor parks and factors that negatively affected the workability of the ban in preventing road... more
This review scrutinized the accident situations in Nigeria, which precipitated the Federal Government’s ban on sales of alcoholic drinks in all motor parks and factors that negatively affected the workability of the ban in preventing road accidents among commercial drivers. These were with a view to providing guidelines for effective future safety policy implementation in Nigeria. The ban was ineffective as a result of poor enlightenment about the programme, lack of enforcement, lack of evaluation, assessment reports and follow-up. The research concluded that safety policies and programmes such as the ban could be an impetus for accident prevention, if these issues are addressed. Also, empirical researches to evaluate such programmes are suggested.
Background: The Slavic countries of the former Soviet Union (fSU) Russia, Belarus and Ukraine retain one of the highest suicide rates in the world, despite a gradual decline over the past decade. Aims: The present study aims to analyze... more
Background: The Slavic countries of the former Soviet Union (fSU) Russia, Belarus and Ukraine retain one of the
highest suicide rates in the world, despite a gradual decline over the past decade.
Aims: The present study aims to analyze whether population drinking is able to explain the dramatic fluctuations in
suicide mortality in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine from the late Soviet to post-Soviet period.
Method: Trends in sex-specific suicide rates and alcohol sales per capita from 1980 to 2010 in Russia Belarus and
Ukraine were analyzed employing a Spearman’s rank-order correlation analysis.
Results: The estimates based on the Soviet data suggest a strong association between alcohol sales and suicide rates
in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. At the same time, the relationship between alcohol sales and suicide rates was
negative in the post-Soviet period.
Conclusion: The findings from present study suggest that the suicide mortality fluctuations in Russia, Belarus and
Ukraine in the Soviet period were attributable to alcohol. Alternatively, alcohol can not fully explain the fluctuations
in the suicide mortality observed in these countries in the Soviet period. Similar regional pattern of suicide trends do not support the hypothesis that alcohol control policy was responsible for the decline in Russian suicide mortality during recent decade.