A Public Health Approach to the Prevention of Alcohol-Related Health Problems

Ashley, Mary Jane; Rankin, J.

doi:10.1146/annurev.pu.09.050188.001313

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“…First, they draw on the 'new public health' approach to alcohol and other drug problems that emphasises 'community development', 'participation' and 'empowerment', [8][9][10][11] and also the need for measures to reduce the supply of, as well as demand for, alcoholic beverages. 8,[12][13][14] Second, in all of them Aboriginal organisations -or organisations in which Aboriginal individuals are key participants -have played a major role in negotiations leading to the restrictions.…”

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Liquor licensing and community action in regional and remote Australia: a review of recent initiatives

d’Abbs

Togni

2000

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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Liquor licensing and community action in regional and remote Australia: a review of recent initiatives

d’Abbs

Togni

2000

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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“…The implications being taken from the epidemiological data are clearly congruent with opposition to policies which affect the alcohol environment and which may therefore impact on the whole drinking population, including moderate drinkers. It is not surprising that the alcohol industry, which has repeatedly demonstrated its opposition to such measures (Mosher & Jemigan, 1989;Ashley & Rankin, 1988;Stewart & Casswell, 1990), has been such an active disseminator of these data.…”

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“…During this decade a considerable body of research evidence was accumulated about which strategies aimed at influencing the agent and the environment are effective (Room, 1984;Mosher & Jemigan, 1989;Ashley & Rankin, 1988;Osterberg, 1990;Moskowitz, 1989).…”

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Public discourse on the benefits of moderation: implications for alcohol policy development

Casswell¹

1993

Addiction

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There is increasingly widespread acceptance of a protective effect of alcohol against coronary heart disease and a consequent delay of mortality among the elderly. This information has been widely disseminated in the popular media and by industry related sectors. The policy arguments based on the epidemiological data are that moderate alcohol use is beneficial, therefore policy should not impact on moderate drinkers, only on heavy drinkers. This fits well with the arguments of those opposed to population public health measures such as taxation, controls on availability, and enforcement of drink-driving laws like random breath testing.However, there is a growing consensus among public health researchers that population measures are most effective at reducing alcohol-related harm. Concern has been expressed that the current public discourse on benefits of moderation will influence individuals to drink more. Of equal, or even greater, concern is the likelihood that this public discourse will decrease the chances that effective population focused policies will be implemented.

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“…One may detect a trend in public policy away from seeing the individual as the primary object of knowledge and site of intervention, as in the classic Alcoholics Anonymous model. While allowing that A.A.'s focus on individually-borne 'disease' and individually-motivated renunciation has helped many drinkers, recent anthropological and public health approaches have pointed to the shared and communal nature of drinking behaviour and the consequent need to alter, by diverse measures, the contexts of drinking [15].…”

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The relevance of ethnographic understanding to Aboriginal anti‐grog initiatives

Rowse

1993

Drug and Alcohol Review

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Aboriginal initiatives to "beat the grog" may or may not draw on ethnographies of Aboriginal drinking behaviour. The deeper reason for this uncertainty has to do with fundamental ideas of citizenship and (self) governance. What is the relevance of "culture" to individual responsibility? This paper reviews this question at three levels; the political debate about "rights" and "responsibility", ethnographic depictions of Aborigines as both group-dominated and individualistic, and through one Aboriginal organization's embracing of the perspectives of Alcoholic's Anonymous.

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A Public Health Approach to the Prevention of Alcohol-Related Health Problems

Cited by 47 publications

References 68 publications

Liquor licensing and community action in regional and remote Australia: a review of recent initiatives

Liquor licensing and community action in regional and remote Australia: a review of recent initiatives

Public discourse on the benefits of moderation: implications for alcohol policy development

The relevance of ethnographic understanding to Aboriginal anti‐grog initiatives

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