Alcohol in the European Union

This World Health Organization publication reports on alcohol consumption, harm, and policy approaches in the European Union, using information gathered in 2011 to update key indicators on alcohol consumption, health outcomes, and action to reduce harm, to update the European Information System on Alcohol and Health's European status report on alcohol and health from 2010. It outlines the impact of alcohol on individual health, societies, and communities; the potential harm from unrecorded and illicit alcohol; and evidence on the effectiveness of various public health policies on alcohol, published since a comprehensive compilation of research-based knowledge on public health aspects was prepared for the European Commission to inform EU strategy. The evidence addresses information and education, health sector responses, reducing injuries and death from alcohol-related road crashes, community action, drinking environments, alcohol and the workplace, the availability of alcohol, the impact of alcohol marketing, and pricing. Some chapters include alcohol-related projects and activities financed by the Commission. Other chapters address what is known about the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of implementing different policies, monitoring programs and action plans, and the EU status report on public health policies on alcohol 2011. Annotation c2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)