A Health Promotion Approach For Reducing Youth Exposure To Alcogenic Environments Brief 12

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789240073296

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A health promotion approach for reducing youth exposure to alcogenic environments. Brief 12 by World Health Organization Pdf

The problem: Young people and their decisions about whether to consume alcohol are significantly affected by the environment in which they live, learn and play. Environments that normalize alcohol consumption –termed alcogenic environments– include, for example, unregulated advertising and marketing of alcoholic beverages, higher alcohol outlet density, products designed to facilitate accessibility and cheap prices of alcoholic beverages. The evidence: A significant body of research evidence has emerged related to the measurement, functional significance and consequences of living in alcogenic environments. This includes findings on the complex and bidirectional interactions creating and perpetuating alcogenic environments among the local context and alcohol acceptability, availability and affordability. The know-how: Comprehensive and enforced alcohol control policies are effective at delaying the age of onset and lowering alcohol prevalence and frequency in young people. Experiences from Colombia, Japan, Nigeria, Norway, Sweden, the United States, Thailand and Uganda shed light on the multiple channels in which alcogenic environments normalize and increase exposure of young people to alcohol and how civil society organizations initiatives have counteracted this. The way forward: Evidence consistently confirms the effectiveness of designing and implementing alcohol control policies that regulate upstream the drivers of alcogenic environment, including alcohol availability, acceptability and affordability.

Author : Margaretha Järvinen,Robin Room
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0754649962

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Youth Drinking Cultures by Margaretha Järvinen,Robin Room Pdf

Youth Drinking Cultures offers a comprehensive set of perspectives on adolescent drinking in Europe. In the book, a team of leading researchers provides cross-national comparisons to investigate how drinking behaviour varies, examining factors such as gen

Author : Robert A. Zucker,Sandra A. Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199735662

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The Oxford Handbook of Adolescent Substance Abuse by Robert A. Zucker,Sandra A. Brown Pdf

Adolescent substance abuse is the nation's #1 public health problem. It originates out of a developmental era where experimentation with the world is increasingly taking place, and where major changes in physical self and social relationships are taking place. These changes cannot be understood by any one discipline nor can they be described by focusing only on the behavioral and social problems of this age period, the characteristics of normal development, or the pharmacology and addictive potential of specific drugs. They require knowledge of the brain's systems of reward and control, genetics, psychopharmacology, personality, child development, psychopathology, family dynamics, peer group relationships, culture, social policy, and more. Drawing on the expertise of the leading researchers in this field, this Handbook provides the most comprehensive summarization of current knowledge about adolescent substance abuse. The Handbook is organized into eight sections covering the literature on the developmental context of this life period, the epidemiology of adolescent use and abuse, similarities and differences in use, addictive potential, and consequences of use for different drugs; etiology and course as characterized at different levels of mechanistic analysis ranging from the genetic and neural to the behavioural and social. Two sections cover the clinical ramifications of abuse, and prevention and intervention strategies to most effectively deal with these problems. The Handbook's last section addresses the role of social policy in framing the problem, in addressing it, and explores its potential role in alleviating it.

Author : Jenny Roe,Layla McCay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781350112896

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Restorative Cities by Jenny Roe,Layla McCay Pdf

Overcrowding, noise and air pollution, long commutes and lack of daylight can take a huge toll on the mental well-being of city-dwellers. With mental healthcare services under increasing pressure, could a better approach to urban design and planning provide a solution? The restrictions faced by city residents around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic has brought home just how much urban design can affect our mental health – and created an imperative to seize this opportunity. Restorative Cities explores a new way of designing cities, one which places mental health and wellness at the forefront. Establishing a blueprint for urban design for mental health, it examines a range of strategies – from sensory architecture to place-making for creativity and community – and brings a genuinely evidence-based approach that will appeal to designers and planners, health practitioners and researchers alike - and provide compelling insights for anyone who cares about how our surroundings affect us. Written by a psychiatrist and public health specialist, and an environmental psychologist with extensive experience of architectural practice, this much-needed work will prompt debate and inspire built environment students and professionals to think more about the positive potential of their designs for mental well-being.

Author : Dennis Raphael
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9780968853993

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Social Justice is Good for Our Hearts: Why Societal Factors -- Not Lifestyles -- Are Major Causes of Heart Disease in Canada and Elsewhere by Dennis Raphael Pdf

Author : Andrew L. Cherry,Valentina Baltag,Mary E. Dillon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319407432

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International Handbook on Adolescent Health and Development by Andrew L. Cherry,Valentina Baltag,Mary E. Dillon Pdf

This comprehensive reference uses an ecological perspective to sort out the complex mix of biological, psychological, social, and other factors influencing adolescent health as well as shaping professional responses to the needs of adolescents. Describing critical concerns at the global level and innovative strategies from selected countries, the book urges readers to develop and support practices and policies to enhance optimal youth development. Expert coverage centers on key areas: the global state of adolescent health and development, adolescent health issues and public health answers, making health systems more responsive to youth, and improving school health services. And bedrock themes such as social determinants of health, young people’s right to health care, and health and gender disparities are discussed throughout these chapters. Included among the topics: • The epidemiology of adolescent health • Adolescent sexual health and sexuality education • Restorative justice and the mental wellbeing of adolescents • Critical issues in adolescent nutrition: needs and recommendations • Towards an adolescent competent workforce • Pairing children with health services: the changing role of school health services in the 21st century The International Handbook on Adolescent Health and Development is essential to medical schools, public schools, and college libraries; teaching faculty; graduate and post-graduate students in public health, medicine, social work, other behavioral sciences and health disciplines (e.g., nursing, allied heath); as well as practitioners interested in better orienting their services to the health needs of adolescents.

Author : Department of Health and Ageing Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Australians
ISBN : 1741869196

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Australia by Department of Health and Ageing Staff Pdf

This strategy sets out of vision for Australia to be the healthiest country by 2020. To realise this vision, the strategy provides the roadmap for a series of strategic and practical actions, to be implemented across all sectors and by all Australians between now and 2020.

Author : Paul S. Haber,Benjamin C. Riordan
Publisher : Specialty of Addiction Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781742104898

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Guidelines for the Treatment of Alcohol Problems by Paul S. Haber,Benjamin C. Riordan Pdf

The Australian Guidelines for the Treatment of Alcohol Problems have been periodically developed over the past 25 years. In 1993, the first version of these guidelines, titled: ‘An outline for the management of alcohol problems: Quality assurance in the treatment of drug dependence project’ was published (Mattick & Jarvis 1993). The Australian Government commissioned an update a decade later (Shand et al. 2003) and a further edition in 2009 to integrate the Guidelines with the Australian Guidelines to Reduce Health Risks from Drinking Alcohol (National Health and Medical Research Council, NHMRC 2009; Haber et al., 2009). The present version of the Guidelines was also commissioned by the Commonwealth of Australia to remain current and integrated with the updated NHMRC consumption guidelines (2020). In order to ensure that guidelines remain relevant, the next set of guidelines should be updated in 2025, consistent with NHMRC recommendation that guidelines be updated every five years. These guidelines aim to provide up-to-date, evidence-based information to clinicians on available treatments for people with alcohol problems and are largely directed towards individual clinicians in practice, such as primary care physicians (general practitioners, nursing staff), specialist medical practitioners, psychologists and other counsellors, and other health professionals. Some chapters highlight service or system level issues that impact on clinicians and their patients. These include recommendations concerning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, stigma, and discrimination. Elsewhere, organisation capacity is implied, such as medical resources for withdrawal management where recommendations indicate use of medications. As all forms of treatment will not be readily available or suitable for all populations or settings, these guidelines may require interpretation and adaptation.

Author : Dominic Conroy,Fiona Measham
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030286071

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Young Adult Drinking Styles by Dominic Conroy,Fiona Measham Pdf

This book brings together cutting-edge contemporary research and discussion concerning drinking practices among young adults (individuals aged approximately 18-30 years old). Its chapters showcase an interdisciplinary range of perspectives from psychology, sociology, criminology, geography, public health and social policy. The contributors address themes including how identity becomes involved in young adult drinking practices; issues relating to the non-consumption of alcohol within friendship groups; and the role of social context, religious and ethnic orientation, gender identity, and social media use. In doing so, they highlight changing trends in alcohol consumption among young people, which have seen notably fewer young adults consuming alcohol over the last two decades. In acknowledging the complex nature of drinking styles among young adults, the contributors to this collection eschew traditional understandings of young adult drinking which can pathologise and generalise. They advocate instead for an inclusive approach, as demonstrated in the wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, cultural perspectives, methods and international settings represented in this book, in order to better understand the economic, socio-cultural and pharmacological crossroads at which we now stand. This book will appeal in particular to researchers, theorists, practitioners and policy makers working in the alcohol and drugs field, public health and health psychology, in addition to students and researchers from across the social sciences.

Author : Bev James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Alcoholism
ISBN : 0958297592

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Under the Influence by Bev James Pdf

This report presents a summary of findings from 20 focus groups with people who have attended or who are attending Salvation Army addiction treatment programmes. The purpose of the focus groups was to learn more about people's experiences with alcohol and their ideas for limiting the harm that alcohol causes in our society. The report also places the findings from the focus groups in the wider context of research on environmental influences on drinking behaviours.

Author : Thomas F. Babor,Jonathan P. Caulkins,Griffith Edwards,Benedikt Fischer,David R. Foxcroft,Keith Humphreys,Isidore S. Obot,Jürgen Rehm,Peter Reuter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199557127

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Drug Policy and the Public Good by Thomas F. Babor,Jonathan P. Caulkins,Griffith Edwards,Benedikt Fischer,David R. Foxcroft,Keith Humphreys,Isidore S. Obot,Jürgen Rehm,Peter Reuter Pdf

Drug Policy and the Public Good is a book by an international group of addiction scientists, to improve the links between addiction science and drug policy. It presents the accumulated scientific knowledge on drug use research that has a direct relevance to the development of drug policy at local, national and international levels.

Author : Fiona Hutton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030352844

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Cultures of Intoxication by Fiona Hutton Pdf

This book considers the global discourses and debates about ‘intoxication’, engaging in critical academic discussion around this concept. The problems in defining intoxication are considered, alongside the meanings of intoxication and how these meanings often differ across diverse drug using populations. The way that intoxication has been engaged with over the centuries has affected how particular groups are perceived and responded to, resulting in punitive responses such as drug prohibition, alongside harsh treatment of those who are seen to transgress societal norms and values. Therefore, this collection seeks to unsettle dominant discourses about intoxication and to consider this concept in new, critical ways. Ways of being intoxicated are also defined in this book in their broadest sense; from ‘energy drinks’ and other legal drugs, to recreational use of illicit drugs such as ecstasy, to ‘problematic’ drug use.

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9241599936

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Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol by World Health Organization Pdf

Every year, the harmful use of alcohol kills 2.5 million people, including 320,000 young people between 15 and 29 years of age. It is the eighth leading risk factor for deaths globally, and harmful use of alcohol was responsible for almost 4% of all deaths in the world, according to the estimates for 2004. In addition to the resolution, a global strategy developed by WHO in close collaboration with Member States provides a portfolio of policy options and interventions for implementation at the national level with the goal to reduce the harmful use of alcohol worldwide. Ten recommended target areas for policy options include health services' responses, community action, pricing policies and reducing the public health impact of illicit alcohol and informally produced alcohol. WHO was also requested to support countries in implementing the strategy and monitor progress at global, regional and national levels.

Author : G. Hussein Rassool
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000362923

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Islamic Psychology by G. Hussein Rassool Pdf

Islamic Psychology or ilm an-nafs (science of the soul) is an important introductory textbook drawing on the latest evidence in the sub-disciplines of psychology to provide a balanced and comprehensive view of human nature, behaviour and experience. Its foundation to develop theories about human nature is based upon the writings of the Qur'an, Sunna, Muslim scholars and contemporary research findings. Synthesising contemporary empirical psychology and Islamic psychology, this book is holistic in both nature and process and includes the physical, psychological, social and spiritual dimensions of human behaviour and experience. Through a broad and comprehensive scope, the book addresses three main areas: Context, perspectives and the clinical applications of applied psychology from an Islamic approach. This book is a core text on Islamic psychology for undergraduate and postgraduate students and those undertaking continuing professional development in Islamic psychology, psychotherapy and counselling. Beyond this, it is also a good supporting resource for teachers and lecturers in this field.

Author : Nady el-Guebaly,Giuseppe Carrà,Marc Galanter,Alexander M. Baldacchino
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1512 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030363918

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Textbook of Addiction Treatment by Nady el-Guebaly,Giuseppe Carrà,Marc Galanter,Alexander M. Baldacchino Pdf

Addiction is increasingly being recognized as a major global public health issue, and an ever-growing number of medical specialties, psychological and social science training programs, and professional associations are including addiction as part of their training and continuing education curricula. The first edition of this book presented an overview of the spectrum of addiction-related problems across different cultures around the globe. Sharing the experience and wisdom of more than 260 leading experts in the field, and promoted by the International Society of Addiction Medicine, it compared and contrasted clinical practices in the field of addiction medicine on the basis of neurobiological similarities as well as epidemiological and socio-cultural differences. Building on the success of this inaugural edition, and taking into account the formal and informal comments received as well as an assessment of current need, this textbook presents general updated information while retaining the most requested sections of the first edition as demonstrated by the number of chapter downloads. It also provides a basic text for those preparing for the ISAM annual certification exam. Written by some 220 international experts, it is a valuable reference resource for anyone interested in medicine, psychology, nursing, and social science.