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The World Health Organization and Alcohol Control
Author(s) -
Room Robin
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1984.tb00250.x
Subject(s) - work (physics) , control (management) , collation , public health , aside , public relations , political science , business , management , engineering , medicine , computer science , nursing , economics , mechanical engineering , art , literature , operating system
Summary While international concern and cooperation about alcohol programmes date back almost a century, modem programming in international agencies has been primarily focused in the World Health Organization. Aside from a spate of work in 1950–1955, the primary effort has come since 1970. The main lines of this work are described. Assessing the record, the programme has been successful in symbolic accentuation of alcohol issues, and productive in information collation, conceptual development and collaborative research, but has failed as yet to become institutionalized as a regular‐budget activity. The difficulties for WHO and other public health institutions in facing the terrain of alcohol control are discussed.