[EQ] Strategies to reduce the harmful use of alcohol

Strategies to reduce the harmful use of alcohol

 

Report by the Secretariat
Provisional agenda item 11.10 20 March 2008

 

SIXTY-FIRST WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY A61/13 –WHO Geneva - May 2008

 

Available online at: http://www.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/A61/A61_13-en.pdf

 

“….Public health problems caused by harmful use of alcohol are considerable in countries with different levels of development and effectiveness of health systems. Globally, among 20 selected risk factors to health, harmful use of alcohol is the leading cause of death and disability in developing countries with low mortality, the third among the leading risk factors in developed countries, after tobacco and blood pressure, and eleventh in developing countries with high mortality rates. Awareness is growing of the impact of harmful use o and interference with effective treatment regimens and procedures…”

 

Staggering Toward a Global Strategy on Alcohol Abuse

David Grimm

SCIENCE VOL 320 16 MAY 2008

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/320/5878/862

 

 

 

 

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