ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Chanida Lertpitakpong

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: Assessing the Impact of Alcohol Policies in Thailand: A Case Study on Polices Limit Alcohol Accessibility.

แหล่งที่มา/Source: The 3rd National Alcohol Conference "Alcohol : No Ordinary Commodity", 21st-22nd November 2007, Richmond Hotel, Nonthaburi, Page 141.

รายละเอียด / Details:

Introduction: Alcohol is not common goods. Many studies have considerable impacts of alcohol on social problems and national expenditures. As the results, several countries including Thailand have implemented the policies aim to reducing accessibility of alcohol. In Thailand, selling alcohol in school, temple, and gas station is prohibited. In addition, welling alcohol to people aged below 18 years old is not allowed. Selling alcohol outside 11.00-14.00 and 17.00-24.00 is also prohibited. Up to present; no study has ever conducted to evaluate how these policies have been implemented. Objecti8ve: This study aims to evaluate the enforcement of policy on reducing accessibility of alcohol in Thailand. Methods: A cross-sectional household survey was carried out throughout the country. Thai populations, regardless of their drinking status from 4,330 households, whose age between 15-60 years and who on paid employment, were interviewed in this study. Result: It was found that about 71% of the sample, who reported that they have consumed alcohol during the past 12 months indicated that the latest place they purchased alcohol was the grocery store, followed by convenient store (8%), about 0.4% indicated that the latest place they purchased alcohol was convenient store located in the gas station. When looking at time of purchasing, it was found that most of the sample purchased alcohol during 18.00-18.59 (35%). However, about 10.4% of the sample indicated that they purchased alcohol during the prohibited time. For the age of purchasers, it was found that about 0.9% of those purchased alcohol were between 15-17 years old. According to the result. Government and related organization should put more effort to ensure the consistent enforcement.

Keywords: alcohol, law enforcement, reduce accessibility, policy, social problem

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 2007

Address: Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program. Ministry of Public Health

Code: 200800195

ISSN/ISBN: 978-974-09-4574-1

Country of publication: Thailand

Language: English

Category: Abstract

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