Research Catalog

Title

Alcohol policy and the public good / Griffith Edwards ... [et al.].

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Edwards, Griffith
• World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe

Description

xii, 226 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Oxford medical publications

Uniform Title

Oxford medical publications

Subject

• Health Policy
• Alcoholism > economics
• Alcoholism > Government policy
• Alcoholism > Economic aspects
• Medical policy

Note

• "World Health Organization : Europe."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Drinking and drinking problems: empowering the policy response -- 2. International trends in alcohol consumption and drinking patterns -- 3. The individual's drinking and degree of risk -- 4. Population drinking and the aggregate risk of alcohol problems -- 5. Retail price influences on alcohol consumption, and taxation of alcohol as a prevention strategy -- 6. Access to alcohol, and the effects of availability on consumption and alcohol-related problems -- 7. Public safety and drinking within particular contexts -- 8. Giving information about alcohol: effects on drinking and on the social climate -- 9. Individually directed interventions as a component of the public health response to alcohol -- 10. The policy implications -- Appendix: research opportunities.

ISBN

• 0192625616 :
• 0192625624 (pbk.) :

LCCN

^^^94030437^

OCLC

• 30894375
• SCSB-11032832

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library