Preventing alcohol problems: a job for Canute?

Alo hol and Alcoholism Preventing alcohol problems : a job for Canute ?

A retrospective study of all 100 cases of non-traumatic(medical) paraplegia admitted to a large hospital innorthern Tanzania over aneight-year period was under-taken; 15 of thepatients wereexamined. Patients' agesrangedfrom 2 to80 years(mean 31), and 67 weremale.Seventy-one lived under 85 km (53 miles) from thehospital, and the average period ...

Community solutions to community problems--preventing adolescent alcohol use.

Lessons from Project Northland: preventing alcohol problems during adolescence.

Project Northland, an ongoing community trial aimed at reducing alcohol use and alcohol-related problems among adolescents, is nearing completion. The project combines individual-based strategies to encourage adolescents not to use alcohol with community-based strategies to both reduce alcohol availability and modify community attitudes concerning youth drinking. Project Northland has developed...

Preventing Alcohol-Related Problems Through Health Policy Research

Alcohol-related health policy research is responsible for guiding the implementation of laws and public health policies that have reduced alcohol-related highway injuries and deaths, as well as other alcohol-related problems over the last 40 years. This research, which tests theories about potential policy changes and responds to specific problems, has examined a vast array of prevention progra...

Nursing interventions for preventing alcohol-related harm.

Harrington-Dobinson and Blows recently provided a three-part series of articles on alcohol, its consequences for health and wellbeing, and the role of the nurse. Their third article outlined the health education and health promotion role of the nurse. They outlined basic principles for nursing practice in relation to the patient with alcohol dependence in the acute general hospital. The authors...