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Saturday, May 12, 2007

Evidence-based strategies and interventions to reduce alcohol-related harm


SIXTIETH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY A60/14
Provisional agenda item 12.7 5 April 2007


Report by the Secretariat

1. Resolution WHA58.26, on public-health problems caused by harmful use of alcohol, requested the Director-General, inter alia, to report to the Sixtieth World Health Assembly on evidence-based strategies and interventions to reduce alcohol-related harm, including a comprehensive assessment of public-health problems caused by harmful use of alcohol. The resolution also requested, without giving a time limit, the Director-General to draw up recommendations for effective policies and interventions to reduce alcohol-related harm.
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Global assessment of public-health problems caused by harmful use of alcohol (Addendum)

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