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This collection contains 80+ WHO publications on mental health, disabilities, substance abuse, tobacco, and alcohol. This collection will be useful to regulators in substance abuse and health personnel dealing with mental problems.
Electronic access to these books is available for one year and for single institution access only.
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This collection contains 80+ WHO publications on mental health, disabilities, substance abuse, tobacco, and alcohol. This collection will be useful to regulators in substance abuse and health personnel dealing with mental problems.
Electronic access to these books is available for one year and for single institution access only. .../...
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2012
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13400127
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The European action plan to reduce the harmful use of alcohol 2012-2020 was endorsed by all 53 Member States in the WHO European Region in September 2011. It includes a range of evidence-based policy options to reduce the harmful use of alcohol. .../...
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Anderson, P., Moller, L., Galea, G.
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2012
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13400118
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This new report uses information gathered in 2011 to update key indicators on alcohol consumption, health outcomes and action to reduce harm across the European Union (EU). It gives an overview of the latest research on effective alcohol policies, and includes data from the EU, Norway and Switzerland on alcohol consumption, harm and policy approaches. .../...
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2011
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15200137
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CHF 10,50
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The legislation guide provides advice on approaches to alcohol regulation to support development of effective legislation appropriate to each country. It provides practical advice based on international experience about the implications of legislative options, steps to be taken to implement legislation and best practice on how to enforce legislation and support compliance. .../...
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2011
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11500805
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CHF 42,00
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***This book has been "highly commended" in the public health category at the British Medical Association Medical Book Awards 2012***
In recent years, a greater number of countries have been providing increasingly concise data,
allowing WHO to create a more comprehensive picture of the global situation on alcohol use
and its health consequences. .../...
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2010
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CHF 35,00
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The harmful use of alcohol creates a significant disease burden and in many countries causes public health problems leading to a substantial health, social and economic burden. Reducing the harmful use of alcohol is becoming a priority on the national, regional and global levels; it can be done by implementing strategies of proven effectiveness. .../...
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Every year, the harmful use of alcohol kills 2.5 million people, including 320 000 young people between 15 and 29 years of age. It is the eighth leading risk factor for deaths globally, and harmful use of alcohol was responsible for almost 4% of all deaths in the world, according to the estimates for 2004. .../...
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Alcohol-attributable injuries and violence are of growing concern to the World Health
Organization. Alcohol-related injuries are especially evident in hospital emergency rooms and
trauma centers. The clinical encounters in these settings present a one-time chance for health
professionals to get access to a population often difficult to reach. .../...
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2009
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This book is Pan American Health Oorganization's latest contribution in the effort to better understand partner violence and, in so doing, find more effective interventions to right this wrong.
The book explores the relationship between alcohol consumption and partner violence gathering information from both the aggressor's and the victim's perspective. .../...
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The purpose of this book is to explain the need for making alcohol a top public health priority in the region and the need for national and regional action. Current evidence-based research shows that alcohol consumption and drinking patterns in the Americas are at damaging levels, with the region surpassing global averages for many alcohol related problems. .../...
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This book presents data from the Multicentric Study on Gender, Alcohol, Culture and Harm, which highlights alcohol consumption profiles and alcohol-related predictors and outcomes for 10 countries in 2005: Argentina, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and USA. .../...
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Harmful use of alcohol causes considerable public health problems and accounts for 5.5% of disease burden in the Western Pacific Region. This Regional Strategy has been designed as a menu of best practices to reduce alcohol related harm and facilitate policy development and implementation at the country level. .../...
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11000944
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Since the last meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on Problems Related to Alcohol Consumption, WHO has undertaken a range of major initiatives to support Member States and reinforce the evidence on which policies work, to develop global and regional information systems, and to promote effective policies in health-care settings. .../...
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The European Region is the WHO region with the highest alcohol intake in the world. Not only per capita consumption but also the disease burden from alcohol are twice the world average. Alcohol is the third-largest risk factor for death and disability in the Region and the largest risk factor among young people. .../...
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Obot, I.S., Room, R.
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This book is the product of a multinational research project on "Gender, Alcohol and Culture: an International Study" (GENACIS). .../...
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00208311
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This report reviews the outcomes of a project to better understand as well as develop a methodology to study the factors associated with sexual risk behaviour among alcohol users in diverse cultural settings. The project focused on eight countries from four continents (Belarus, India, Mexico, Kenya, Romania, the Russian Federation, South Africa and Zambia).
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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. .../...
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11500564
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The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are about 2 billion people worldwide consuming alcoholic beverages and 76.3 million with diagnosed alcohol use disorders. From a public health perspective, the global burden of alcohol, both in terms of morbidity and mortality, is considerable; alcohol consumption causes 3.2% of deaths (1.8 million) and 4. .../...
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Single, E., Collins, D., Easton, B., Harwood, H., Lapsley, H., Kopp, P., Wilson, E.
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2003
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11500561
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The International guidelines for estimating the costs of substance abuse presents a general framework for the development of cost estimates. .../...
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2002
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19300199
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CHF 23,00
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CHF 16,10
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The present book's inception was an initiative of the World Health Organization, Geneva. The initiative reflected the fact that WHO has responsibility for public health on a global basis, which implies a special responsibility for developing societies. .../...
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1988
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17200044
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CHF 55,00
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