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| WHO Regional Technical Consultation on a global strategy to reduce harmful use of alcohol | ||
| 07. Oktober 2009 | ||
| Meeting report, Copenhagen, 20-23 April 2009 | ||
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| Handbook for action to reduce alcohol-related harm | ||
| 21. September 2009 | ||
 This handbook helps countries review, adjust or strengthen their alcohol action plans and explores ten areas for action: pricing, availability, marketing, illegally and informally produced alcohol, drink–driving, drinking environments, health care interventions, public awareness-raising, community and workplace action, and monitoring and evaluation. | ||
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| Evidence for the effectiveness and cost–effectiveness of interventions to reduce alcohol-related harm | ||
| 21. September 2009 | ||
 Tackling alcohol-related harm effectively. This book reviews evidence on the effectiveness of a wide range of alcohol interventions and presents the policy implications of these findings. | ||
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| Swedish EU Presidency expert conference on the prevention of alcohol-related harm. Stockholm, Sweden 21-22 September 2009 | ||
| This meeting supports the strategy to reduce alcohol-related harm in the EU. It covers policy development, and the latest research. A report will be presented on the situation in the European Union Member States three years after the adoption of the EU strategy to reduce alcohol-related harm. | ||
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The WHO European Region has the highest alcohol intake worldwide. Alcohol is one of the main factors related to premature deaths and avoidable disease burden worldwide and has a major impact on public health. Among 20 selected risk factors to health, the harmful use of alcohol is the leading cause of death and disability in developing countries with low mortality. It is the third among the leading risk factors in developing countries, after tobacco and blood pressure, and eleventh in developing countries with high mortality rates.
Harmful use of alcohol is a major avoidable risk factor for neuropsychiatric disorders and other non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cirrhosis of the liver and cancers. A significant proportion of the disease burden attributable to harmful use of alcohol is determined by unintentional and intentional injuries, including those due to road traffic crashes and suicides.
WHO supports Member States in improving public health by addressing the need to ensure adequate health promotion, disease prevention, disease management research, evaluation and surveillance activities on alcohol consumption and harm in the Region in line with the aims of the Framework for Alcohol Policy.
