Citation

Tabb LP, Ballester L, Grubesic TH. Spat. Spatiotemporal Epidemiol. 2016; 19: 115-124.

Affiliation

Center for Spatial Reasoning & Policy Analytics, Arizona State University, College of Public Service & Community Solutions, Phoenix, AZ, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.sste.2016.08.003

PMID

27839575

Abstract

Alcohol-related violence is a well-documented public health concern, where various individual and community-level factors contribute to this relationship. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of a significant policy change at the local level, which privatized liquor sales and distribution. Specifically, we explored the relationship between alcohol and violence in Seattle, WA, 2010-2013, via hierarchical spatio-temporal disease mapping models. To measure and map this complex spatio-temporal relationship at the census block group level (n=567), we examined a variety of models using integrated nested Laplace approximations and used the deviance information criterion to gauge model complexity and fit. For each additional off-premises and on-premises alcohol outlet in a given census block group, we found a significant increase of 8% and 5% for aggravated assaults and 6% and 5% for non-aggravated assaults, respectively. Lastly, our maps showed variation in the estimated relative risks across the city of Seattle.

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Language: en