Prevention in Specific Contexts* Health, Family, Traffic, Occupation

AS mentioned in various parts of this review, alcohol-related problems are not merely "alcoholism" and programmes focused on specific contexts may provide more encouraging results than a total preventive programme. Information is brought together in this section on four such contexts and it will be seen that, although there appear to be few well defined efforts to reduce particular health problems in relation to alcohol consumption, and on the whole only rather general attempts to prevent problems among the families of heavy drinkers, many countries have mounted special programmes to reduce alcohol-related traffic and occupational problems.