cover image - Public Health Mini-Guides: Alcohol Misuse - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780702063046
Copyright: 2015
Publication Date: 07-13-2014
Page Count: 144
Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
List Price: $15.95

Public Health Mini-Guides: Alcohol Misuse - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 1st Edition

by Ken Barrie, BA (Hons) CQSW PG Dip Alcohol Studies and Angela Scriven, BA(Hons), MEd, CertEd, FRSPH, MIUHPE

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

cover image - Public Health Mini-Guides: Alcohol Misuse - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780702063046
Copyright: 2015
Publication Date: 07-13-2014
Page Count: 144
Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
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Public Health Mini-Guides: Alcohol Misuse provides up-to-date, evidence-based information in a convenient pocket-sized format. Alcohol Misuse is a major public health concern in the UK, and its impact is significant on a global scale. This Mini-Guide presents resources, research and examples relating to this challenge, exploring the causes of alcohol misuse along with the approaches to reduce alcohol problems at both individual and population levels.

    • Boxes

    • Thinking points - will be of interest to practitioners

    • Key debates

    • Case studies

    • Current strategies – Gov. targets

    • Further Reading

    • Useful web links.

  • 1. Alcohol consumption

    2. The health and legal consequences of problem drinking

    3. Dependent drinkers and recovery

    4. Family and workplace

    5. Public health interventions

    6. Alcohol brief interventions (ABIs)

  • Ken Barrie, BA (Hons) CQSW PG Dip Alcohol Studies, Senior Lecturer in Alcohol and Drug Studies, School of Social Sciences, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, Scotland and Angela Scriven, BA(Hons), MEd, CertEd, FRSPH, MIUHPE, Reader in Health Promotion, School of Health Sciences and Social Care, Brunel University, London, UK
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