Social policies have great potential to improve population health and reduce health
disparities. Increasingly, those doing empirical research have sought to quantify the health …

Introduction This study describes the legal recreational cannabis market across Canada
over the 2 years following legalisation. We compared changes in access to the legal …

Extensive empirical health research leverages variation in the timing and location of policy
changes as quasi-experiments. Multiple social policies may be adopted simultaneously in …

BACKGROUND: Alcohol use causes a large burden on the health of Canadians, and
alcohol-related harms appear to be increasing in many high-income countries. We sought to …

Background: On Oct. 17, 2018, Canada legalized recreational cannabis with the dual goals
of reducing youth use and eliminating the illicit cannabis market. We examined factors …

Neighborhood accessibility and availability of alcohol products has been associated with
increased alcohol consumption and harms among adolescents. This availability has been …

Objective: From 2015 to 2019, the Government of Ontario expanded privatized sales of
alcohol, licensing 450 grocery stores to sell beer, cider, and wine. The impacts of a nearby …

Introduction Effective alcohol control measures can prevent and reduce alcohol‐related
harms at the population level. This study aims to evaluate implementation of alcohol policies …

Objective: Rates of alcohol use and alcohol-related harms increase with greater alcohol
availability. However, regional differences in sociodemographic characteristics and built …

Learners are vulnerable to alcohol use and its negative effects, largely due to accessibility of
alcohol products, especially in the localities with poor socioeconomic status and …