Rehm, J. orcid.org/0000-0001-5665-0385 and Purshouse, R.C. orcid.org/0000-0001-5880-1925 (2021) Causality and initiation of alcohol control policy. A response to Allamani. Drug and Alcohol Review, 40 (7). pp. 1389-1391. ISSN 0959-5236
Abstract
In a recent commentary, Allamani asked how one can establish causality in epidemiological research, and specifically about causality as it relates to alcohol control policy. Epidemiology customarily uses a sufficient-component cause model, where a sufficient cause for an outcome is determined by a set of minimal conditions and events that inevitably produce the stated outcome. While this model is theoretically clear, its operationalisation often involves probabilistic elements. Recent advances in agent-based modelling may improve operationalisation. The implications for alcohol control policy from this model are straightforward: the so-called alcohol-attributable fraction denotes the cases of morbidity or mortality which would not have happened in the absence of alcohol use.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Drug and Alcohol Review. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. | ||||
Keywords: | alcohol; alcohol control policy; causality; probabilistic; Alcohol Drinking; Causality; Cognition; Humans; Public Policy | ||||
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield | ||||
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering (Sheffield) | ||||
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Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield | ||||
Date Deposited: | 27 Apr 2023 10:58 | ||||
Last Modified: | 27 Apr 2023 10:59 | ||||
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Publisher: | Wiley | ||||
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Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.13371 | ||||
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