With growing awareness of the impact of alcohol consumption on global health (Rehm et al.
2004; World Health Organization [WHO] 2002, 2009) the demand for global information on …

Harmful alcohol use and the related health effects are a global problem and therefore need
to be addressed not only by individual nations but also on an international level. For …

Abstract In 1983 the World Health Assembly declared alcohol-related problems to be among
the world's major health concerns. Since then, alcohol consumption has risen in developing …

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 …

Global efforts to address alcohol harm have significantly increased since the mid-1990s. By
2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) had adopted the non-binding Global Strategy to …

In its Global action plan for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases 2013–
2030, WHO set a goal of reducing harmful use of alcohol by 10% by 2025. We agree with …

The report provides an overview of alcohol consumption and harms in relation to the UN
Sustainable Development Goals (Chapter 1) presents global strategies action plans and …

There has been a remarkable increase in the attention paid to the alcohol industry by those
working in the public health field in recent years, as illustrated by the meeting of which this …

Aims: To identify how current public health policies of 12 developed countries assess
alcohol-related problems, the goals and targets that are set and the strategic directives …

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 …