This book is intended to contribute to the World Health Organization's (WHO) global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol. It explores areas where alcohol producers' technical competence can and does make a positive contribution to reducing harmful drinking and where industry input has been welcomed by WHO. The book describes each of these areas: producing beer, wine, and spirits; addressing availability of noncommercial beverages; pricing, marketing, and selling beverage alcohol; encouraging responsible choices; and working with others. The final chapter sets out views of how...
This book is intended to contribute to the World Health Organization's (WHO) global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol. It explores area...
Divided into two parts, Alcohol and Emerging Markets begins with a series of case studies that assess alcohol issues in four regions - Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa - and four countries - China, India, Mexico, and Russia. Issues such as past and current public policy developments, prevention programs, and treatment of alcohol related disorders are addressed as well as the health consequences of alcohol use and abuse. In the second part, the contributors consider the issues relevant to the entire geographical region covered by the book. The book also...
Divided into two parts, Alcohol and Emerging Markets begins with a series of case studies that assess alcohol issues in four regions - Asia, Central a...
There is no simple threshold between the experience of drinking and the pleasure it can bring on the one hand and the pain and suffering caused by alcohol abuse on the other. But if we are to understand the role of alcohol in society, then at the very least we need to acknowledge the pleasure as well as the pain. Alcohol and Pleasure aims to bring together existing knowledge on the role of pleasure in drinking and determine whether the concept is useful for scientific understanding and policy consideration.
There is no simple threshold between the experience of drinking and the pleasure it can bring on the one hand and the pain and suffering caused by alc...
This book is intended to contribute to the World Health Organization s (WHO) global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol. It explores areas where alcohol producers technical competence can and does make a positive contribution to reducing harmful drinking and where industry input has been welcomed by WHO. The book describes each of these areas: producing beer, wine, and spirits; addressing availability of noncommercial beverages; pricing, marketing, and selling beverage alcohol; encouraging responsible choices; and working with others. The final chapter sets out views of how...
This book is intended to contribute to the World Health Organization s (WHO) global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol. It explores area...
This collection consists of poems written by Marcus Grant over a fifty-year period. They are mainly set in Scotland (where he was born and grew up) England (where he went to university and lived for twenty years) Western Europe (which he visited frequently and where he lived for ten years) the United States (where he lived and worked for another twenty years) and further afield (based on extensive travels in other parts of the world). Although some of the poems have been previously published or broadcast, the collection brings together for the first time a cohesive sense of a journey from...
This collection consists of poems written by Marcus Grant over a fifty-year period. They are mainly set in Scotland (where he was born and grew up) En...
