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The aim of the current project, funded by NIAAA (grant no. 1R01AA028224) is to evaluate the effect of these policies across a variety of outcomes including and not limited to mortality and morbidity, alcohol-related harm, alcohol consumption, and economic costs. In addition, we aim to compare the temporal trends and changes in these outcome measures to other neighbouring Baltic states.
The co-PIs of the project are preeminent researchers in the Baltic countries, who had access to high quality data on individual causes of death. Using monthly mortality data from multiple comparable countries allowed the team to carefully analyze the temporal trends in mortality and the impact of various factors (e.g., policy changes, sociocultural differences, economic events) on these trends.
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