Evaluating the Effectiveness of Implementing a More Severe Drunk-Driving Law in China: Findings from Two Open Access Data Sources

Wangxin Xiao; Peishan Ning; David C. Schwebel; Guoqing Hu

doi:10.3390/ijerph14080832

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Implementing a More Severe Drunk-Driving Law in China: Findings from Two Open Access Data Sources

Wangxin Xiao, Peishan Ning, David C. Schwebel and Guoqing Hu

International journal of environmental research and public health, Vol.14(8), p.832

07/25/2017

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph14080832

PMCID: PMC5580536

PMID: 28757551

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In 2011, China implemented a more severe drunk-driving law. This study evaluated the effectiveness of the law on road traffic morbidity and mortality attributed to alcohol use. Data were from two open-access data sources, the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2015 update and police data. Poisson regression examined the significance of changes in morbidity and mortality. Large gaps in crude death estimates from road traffic crashes attributed to alcohol use emerged between the two data sources. For the GBD 2015 update, crude and age-standardized mortality displayed consistent trends between 1990 and 2015; age-standardized mortality per 100,000 persons increased from 5.71 in 1990 to 7.48 in 2005 and then continuously decreased down to 5.94 in 2015. Police data showed a decrease for crude mortality per 100,000 persons from 0.29 in 2006 to 0.15 in 2010 and then an increase to 0.19 in 2015. We conclude available data are inadequate to determine the effectiveness of the implementation of the more severe drunk-driving law in China since the two data sources present highly inconsistent results. Further effort is needed to tackle data inconsistencies and obtain reliable and accurate data on road traffic injury attributable to alcohol use in China.

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Title: Subtitle: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Implementing a More Severe Drunk-Driving Law in China: Findings from Two Open Access Data Sources
Creators: Wangxin Xiao - Central South University
Peishan Ning - Central South University
David C. Schwebel - University of Alabama at Birmingham
Guoqing Hu - Central South University
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: International journal of environmental research and public health, Vol.14(8), p.832
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph14080832
PMID: 28757551
PMCID: PMC5580536
NLM abbreviation: Int J Environ Res Public Health
ISSN: 1660-4601
eISSN: 1660-4601
Publisher: Mdpi
Number of pages: 8
Language: English
Date published: 07/25/2017
Academic Unit: Research Administration
Record Identifier: 9984949469202771

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