Papers by Desapriya Ediriweera
JAPANESE JOURNAL OF ALCOHOL STUDIES AND DRUG DEPENDENCE, Feb 1, 2003
Tobacco use, particularly smoking, remains the number one cause of preventable disease and mortal... more Tobacco use, particularly smoking, remains the number one cause of preventable disease and mortality in Japan. This review of the tobacco control policy and public health is the first to offer a composite review of the subject within Japan. This review attempts to evaluate the most important aspects of the current political economy of the tobacco control policy, and concludes that more effective control policies must be employed to minimize the impact of smoking on the public's health in Japan. Further the article attempts to place the ...
Assurances et gestion des risques
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Nihon Arukōru Yakubutsu Igakkai zasshi = Japanese journal of alcohol studies & drug dependence, 2002
There are a number of factors that give traffic accidents and injuries a prominent position among... more There are a number of factors that give traffic accidents and injuries a prominent position among public health agenda. Injuries, major public health challenge throughout the world and which account for 10% of global mortality, are often ignored as a major cause of death and may require innovative strategies to reduce their toll. Traffic accidents prevention traditionally have been as the domain of law enforcement, societal responses have primarily been a repressive or containment nature. The role of the health sector has tended to be limited to one of treatment and disability prevention, or in other words, damage control. Global Status Report on alcohol use 2001 revealed that drinking has risen steadily among young people in Japan and children between the ages of 13 and 17 have drunk to intoxication or unconsciousness. It also appears that young people in Japan are beginning to drink at earlier ages, while research has found earlier initiation of alcohol use to be associated alcoho...
Nihon Arukōru Yakubutsu Igakkai zasshi = Japanese journal of alcohol studies & drug dependence, 2003
Borkenstein et al. (1974) study indicated that drivers with BACs of 0.05 to 0.09 per cent were tw... more Borkenstein et al. (1974) study indicated that drivers with BACs of 0.05 to 0.09 per cent were twice as likely to crash as drivers with a zero BAC. Drivers with BACs from 0.10 to 0.14 per cent were ten times as likely to have a fatal crash in 1964. There have been numerous efforts during the history of motorized countries to control the consumption of alcohol and the problems associated with it through legislative mandate, it was not until the 1970s that acceptance of legal BAC (Blood Alcohol Concentration) limits laws became widespread. In particular, as more and more people drive automobiles, the number of traffic accidents involving drunken drivers has soared, and many of these are known to be related to the consumption of alcohol. Thus, legislators find themselves under increasing pressure to find a reasonable and fair solution to the question of alcohol impaired driving, as the scientific evidence about alcohol consumption level and psycho motor functions impairment came to cle...
Traffic Injury Prevention, 2010
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Papers by Desapriya Ediriweera