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Title Alcohol policy and the public good
Edition First edition
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994

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Description xii,226 pages ; 24 cm
Series Oxford medical publications
Oxford medical publications.
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
Analysis Alcoholism Policies Of Government
Notes Includes indexes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Credits Published for the World Health Organization, Europe
Subject Alcoholism -- Economic aspects.
Alcoholism -- Government policy.
Alcohol Drinking.
Public Health.
Public Policy.
Alcoholism -- economics.
Health Policy.
Author Edwards, Griffith.
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe.
LC no. 94030437
ISBN 0192625616
0192625624 (paperback)