Recent transitions in eastern Europe were followed by, or associated with, an outburst of
social problems, including those related to alcohol consumption. In alcohol-prevention …

Beginning with France in the 1950s, alcohol consumption has decreased in Southern
European countries with few or no preventive alcohol policy measures being implemented …

Worldwide, Europe plays a significant part in the production, trade and consumption of
alcoholic beverages and it also carries a heavy burden of alcoholrelated problems …

This document is intended for those policy-makers, researchers and concerned members of
the public who wish to obtain information about the consumption of alcohol, alcohol-related …

The last twenty years of transitions have showed mixed results regarding economic and
health developments in Eastern Europe an area which appears to be a unique laboratory for …

One of the aims of the European Comparative Alcohol Study (ECAS) was to describe and
analyse alcohol policies within a comparative and longitudinal framework in the current …

Within the global context, Eastern Europe has been repeatedly identified as the area with
the highest levels of alcohol‐related health harms. Although the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, and …

The former socialist countries of present-day Europe provide scenes for natural experiments
in many fields of social and political action. Alcohol production and sales and prevention of …

The current position with regard to alcohol control policy in Europe is reviewed. The role of
the four main players, the European Union and its institutions; The World Health …

Aims To describe three aspects of the epidemiology of alcohol‐attributable deaths in
Europe, dose, demography and place, and to illustrate how such knowledge can better be …