The World Health Assembly, at its meeting in May, will have before it a Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol.
The document, adopted by the World Health Organization’s Executive Board in January 2010, outlines important alcohol policy options relating to availability, regulation of marketing, pricing and drink driving measures.
The global strategy is a guide to understanding the problems of alcohol-related harm and a toolkit for addressing such problems at global, national and local level. It recognizes that alcohol-related harm is a public health problem not only affecting the drinker but includes harm to others.
As a consequence its suggested strategies address alcohol consumption and drinking patterns at both population and individual level. . . . . . .
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