Global status report : alcohol policy / World Health Organization, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

World Health Organization. Substance Abuse Department.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alcohol--Government policy.

Alcohol.

Drinking of alcoholic beverages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Geneva : World Health Organization, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Global Status Report on Alcohol 2004 is a new edition of the Report published by WHO in 1999. This edition provides an update of the role of alcohol in global health and contains data not found in the earlier edition. The Report seeks to document what is known about alcohol consumption and drinking patterns among various population groups, alcohol's impact on health worldwide and what is needed on a global basis to prevent and reduce alcohol-related injury and disease. For this new edition, more emphasis has been placed on enhancing the comparability of data by setting clear and comprehens

Contents:

Preliminaries; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; INTRODUCTION; ALCOHOL POLICY BACKGROUND AND DEFINITION; WHO GLOBAL ALCOHOL DATABASE; DATA SOURCES AND METHODS; REGIONAL OVERVIEWS OF DATA AVAILABILITY; AREAS OF ALCOHOL POLICY; 1 Definition of an alcoholic beverage; 2 Restrictions on the availability of alcoholic beverages; 3 Drink driving legislation; 4 Price and taxation; 5 Advertising and sponsorship; 6 Alcohol free environments; DISCUSSION; COUNTRY PROFILES; REFERENCES; ANNEX 1 GLOBAL QUESTIONNAIRE ALCOHOL CONTROL POLICIES

ANNEX 2 LIST OF FOCAL POINTS FOR THE ALCOHOL POLICY QUESTIONNAIRE

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographic references (p. 197-200).

ISBN:

1-280-08858-3

9786610088584

92-4-068044-6

OCLC:

476035270