STRATEGIC AREAS OF COMBATING DANGEROUS AND HARMFUL USE OF ALCOHOL IN DOCUMENTS OF WHO
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11603/1681-2786.2019.3.10603Keywords:
alcoholic beverages, consumption, morbidity, mortality, prevention, strategies, policy, regulationAbstract
Purpose: to explore current strategies and approaches to preventing alcohol use and reducing the associated risk of harm in WHO strategic documents.
Materials and Methods. Bibliographic and information-analytical methods were used in the study. The scientific source base is WHO, WHO information and strategic, programmatic and working documents.
Results. An analysis of the WHO strategic documents and programmatic documents, WHO, the UN, the EU, the EU has highlighted the priority of preventing and reducing unhealthy alcohol use in the fight against NCDs and promoting public health. Global Action Plan on Noncommunicable Diseases, Global Strategy for Reducing Alcohol Abuse, outlines perspectives for preventing unhealthy alcohol behavior and reducing the prevalence of this risk factor by using population, group and individual approaches, using economic, legal and other approaches. Regional European documents, first of all, the European Action Plan on Reduction of Alcohol Use for 2012–2020, represent a set of effective measures concerning the implementation of marketing and pricing policies, raising public awareness, combating drunk driving, leadership, leadership reducing the negative effects of alcohol and alcohol intoxication within the health sector, reducing the availability of alcoholic beverages, reducing consumption produced illegally cogeneration products or the unorganized sector, monitoring and surveillance.
Conclusions. Identified promising directions, strategies and measures to counteract unhealthy alcohol consumption, outlined in international and regional health documents, are the basis for substantiation and development of conceptual frameworks and concrete action plans for preventing and combating the negative effects of alcohol use by the population .
References
Gruzieva, T.S., Dufinets, V.A., Zamkevych, V.B., Rynda, F.F., & Kruchanytsia, V.V. (2016). Medyko-sotsialni aspekty vzhyvannia alkoholiu naselenniam ta stratehii protydii [Medical and social aspects of alcohol consumption by the population and counteraction strategies]. Shchorichna dopovid pro stan zdorovia naselennia, sanitarno-epidemichnu sytuatsiiu ta rezultaty diialnosti systemy okhorony zdorovia Ukrainy. 2015 rik – Annual Report on the State of Health of the Population, the Sanitary-epidemic Situation and the Results of Activity of the Health Care System of Ukraine. 2015. MOZ Ukrainy, DU "UISD MOZ Ukrainy". Kyiv, (pp. 118-127) [in Ukrainian].
Action Plan for implementation of the European Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases 2012−2016. (2012). Copenhagen,WHO Regional Office for Europe.
Declaration on young people and alcohol. (2001). Copenhagen, WHO Regional Office for Europe.
European action plan to reduce the harmful use of alcohol 2012–2020. (2012). Copenhagen, WHO Regional Office for Europe.
European Alcohol Action Plan. (1993). Copenhagen, WHO Regional Office for Europe.
European Alcohol Action Plan, 2000-2005. (2000). Copenhagen, WHO Regional Office for Europe.
Fact sheet on SDGs – Noncommunicable diseases (SDG target 3.4). (2017). Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe. Retrieved from: http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/350278/Fact-sheet-SDG-NCD-FINAL-25-10-17.pdf?ua=1
Framework for alcohol policy in the WHO European Region Retrieved from: http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/79396/E88335.pdf?ua=1
Global Information System on Alcohol and Health (GISAH): levels of consumption [online database]. (2018). Geneva: World Health Organization; Retrieved from: http://www.who.int/gho/alcohol/consumption_levels/en/
Global status report on alcohol and health 2018. Geneva: World Health Organization Retrieved from: http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/hand le/10665/274603/9789241565639-eng.pdf?ua=1.
Global status report on noncommunicable diseases 2014 "Attaining the nine global noncommunicable diseases targets; a shared responsibility". (2014). Geneva: WHO.
Global status report on noncommunicable diseases, 2010. (2011). Geneva: WHO.
Global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol. (2010). Geneva: WHO.
Gruzieva, T.S., Dufinets, V.А., & Zamkevych, V.B. (2016). Harmful alcohol consumption: prevalence, trends, health burden, reduction strategy. Wiadomości Lekarskie, 2(LXIХ), 183-189.
Gruzieva, T.S., Dufinets, V.А., & Zamkevych, V.B. (2016). Peculiarities and tendencies of harmful alcohol consumption in Ukraine and European countries World Health Organization. Cyril-Methodius Days of the Social Services. Proceedings of the international expert-scientific conference. Stančiak, J., Dončevova, S., Dudžakova, A., Slovak, P. (Eds.). Budapest: Heraldika Kiado.
Healthy, prosperous lives for all: the European Health Equity Status Report. (2019). Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe.
Kevin D. Shield, Margaret Rylett, & Jürgen Rehm. (2014). Public health successes and missed opportunities Trends in alcohol consumption and attributable mortality in the WHO European Region, 1990–2014. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe.
Alwan, A., Maclean, D.R., Riley, L.M., d’Espaignet, E.T., Mathers, C.D., Stevens, G.A., & Bettcher, D. (2010). Monitoring and surveillance of chronic noncommunicable diseases: progress and capacity inhigh-burden countries. The Lancet, 376, 1861-1868. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61853-3
(2017). Noncommunicable diseases progress monitor 2017. Geneva: WHO.
Prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases in the European Region: a progress report. (2014). Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe.
Status report on alcohol consumption, harm and policy responses in 30 European countries, 2018. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe; in press.
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Retrieved from: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld.
WHO Expert Committee on Problems Related to Alcohol Consumption. (2006). Geneva: World Health Organization.
WHO launches SAFER alcohol control initiative to prevent and reduce alcohol-related death and disability. (2019). Geneva: WHO. Retrieved from: https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/28-09-2018-who-launches-safer-alcohol-control-initiative-to-prevent-and-reduce-alcohol-related-death-and-disability
World Health Statistics 2017: Monitoring health for the SDGs. (2018). Geneva: WHO. Retrieved from: https://www.who.int/gho/publications/world _health_statistics/2017/en/.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:
1. The authors reserve the right to authorship of the work and pass the journal right of first publication of this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows others to freely distribute the work published with reference to the authors of the original work and the first publication of this magazine.
2. Authors are entitled to enter into a separate agreement on additional non-exclusive distribution of work in the form in which it was published in the magazine (eg work place in the electronic repository institution or publish monographs in part), provided that the reference to the first publication of this magazine.
3. Policy magazine allows and encourages authors placement on the Internet (eg, in storage facilities or on personal websites) manuscript of how to submit the manuscript to the editor and during his editorial processing, since it contributes to productive scientific discussion and positive impact on the efficiency and dynamics of citing published work (see. The Effect of Open Access).
