Indications of Public Health in the English Regions: no. 8 Alcohol

This report highlights the harm due to alcohol experienced across England. Each section highlights a different measure of the effect of alcohol on the population. It reviews 36 different indicators and 84 separate sub-measures relating to the individual, community and population showing the implications of alcohol use and its effect on health and well-being. The report is intended to complement the new national strategy Safe.Sensible. Social. This is a valuable resource for Directors of Public Health who play a key role in identifying health and social care priorities.

Association of Public Health Observatories (2007) Indicators of public health in the English regions: no. 8 Alcohol

Breakthrough Britain – ending the cost of social breakdown.vol 4: Addictions: Policy recommendations to the Conservative Party.

 The Social Justice Policy Group has just completed a review and analysis of current drug and alcohol policies based on extensive consultation with organisations involved in alcohol-harm prevention and treatment. The report makes a number of recommendations including a proposal  an extra alcohol tax to fund drug treatment programmes

 Kath Gyngell (2007) Breakthrough Britain – ending the cost of social breakdown.vol 4: Addictions:

A Glass half empty: Alcohol Concern’s review of the impact of the Alcohol Harm

 

A Glass Half Empty? summarises Alcohol Concern’s vision of how society can achieve a more healthy relationship with alcohol as the Government reviews its Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy and prepares for next stage. It sets out: a review of the Strategy’s effectiveness to date; the principles which should underpin any new strategy,  and Alcohol Concern’s recommended aims and objectives to achieve lasting change.

Executive summary

To obtain a copy of the full report (£15) email info@alcoholconcern.org.uk.

Multi-component programmes: an approach to prevention and reduction of alcohol-related harm

A key element of the Government’s Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy ( 2004) is the focus on local coordinated action to reduce the cost of alcohol to the individual and communities.  A new report from the Joseph Rowntree reviews international experience of comunity-based programmes and provides recommendations for how they could be made to work in the United Kingdom. Betsy Thom and Mariana Bayley (2007) Multi-component programmes: an approach to prevention and reduction of alcohol-related harm, York, Joesph Rowntree Foundation.

To obtain a copy