A Healthy Public Policy, Who’s Effectiveness bas been Proven: Restriction of Liquor Sales Hour

This study sought to relate the impact of the time restriction on liquor sales with violent deaths due to alcohol consumption. In 2011 based on an ecological comparison study between 2 districts of Lima, one with restriction and one without, evidenced the difference in the incidence of injuries of external cause related to alcohol. Therefore, the municipality of Lima promulgated ordinance 1586, which established the restriction of liquor sales hours in the 43 districts that make up metropolitan Lima and gave a period of 3 years to establish it. The Institute of Legal Medicine of Lima sent monthly the ethnographic characteristics of violent deaths related to alcohol. This ordinance has shown that it is capable of reducing violent deaths related to alcohol in traffic crashes, hit-and-runs, homicides, and suicides, fundamentally in men, young people, days of the week and time of the greatest incidence. There was also an increase in the age frequency of deaths of traffic accidents by year of the ordinance