This year’s course will feature inputs from Prof. Annie Britton from University College London, Prof. Mark Petticrew from LSHTM, and Dr. Mark Robinson from NHS Health Scotland, as well as Colin Angus (University of Sheffield), Prof. Carol...
Critchlow, Nathan, Daniel Jones, Crawford Moodie, Anne Marie MacKintosh, Niamh Fitzgerald, Lucie Hooper, Christopher Thomas, and Jyotsna Vohra. "Awareness of product-related information, health messages and warnings on alcohol packaging among adolescents: a cross-sectional survey in the United Kingdom." Journal of Public Health (2019).
Although alcohol consumption among young people in the UK has been declining there remains a concerning level of binge drinking amongst 16–24-year-olds.
One intervention, that is cost-effective and has a wide reach, is the inclusion of health messaging and product-related information on alcohol packaging. It is important therefore to understand how much information is being processed and recalled by young people.
A cross-sectional study, published in the Journal of Public Health, has examined awareness and recall of product information among adolescents and young adults aged 11–19 years old...
Source: Roberts, E., Morse, R., Epstein, S., Hotopf, M., Leon, D., & Drummond, C. (2019). The prevalence of wholly attributable alcohol conditions in the United Kingdom hospital system: a systematic review, meta-analysis and meta‐regression. Addiction. ABSTRACT Background and Aims The prevalence of...
Source: Critchlow, N., Jones, D., Moodie, C., MacKintosh, A. M., Fitzgerald, N., Hooper, L., ... & Vohra, J. (2019). Awareness of product-related information, health messages and warnings on alcohol packaging among adolescents: a cross-sectional survey in the United Kingdom. Journal of Public Health...
Fuente: Informe sobre la situación mundial del alcohol y la salud 2018. Resumen. Washington, D.C.: Organización Panamericana de la Salud; 2019. (OPS/NMH/19-012). Licencia: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. El consumo nocivo de bebidas alcohólicas es uno de los principales factores de riesgo para la salud de la...
Source: Sureda X, Espelt A, Villalbí JR, et al. Development and evaluation of the OHCITIES instrument: assessing alcohol urban environments in the Heart Healthy Hoods project BMJ Open 2017;7:e017362. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017362 Abstract Objectives To describe the development and test–retest...
The Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland's Alcohol Strategy (MESAS) monitoring report 2019 presents all the latest available data on key alcohol indicators in Scotland.
Fuente: Razón Hernández, K. C., Rodríguez Serrano, L. M., & León Jacinto, U. (2018). Neurobiología del sistema de recompensa en las conductas adictivas: consumo de alcohol. Revista Electrónica de Psicología Iztacala, 20(4). Resumen Los reforzadores tanto naturales como artificiales inciden sobre los...
Chiodo, L. M., Cosmian, C. , Pereira, K. , Kent, N. , Sokol, R. J. and Hannigan, J. H. (2019), Prenatal Alcohol Screening During Pregnancy by Midwives and Nurses. Alcohol Clin Exp Re. doi:10.1111/acer.14114
Abstract
Background
Alcohol use during pregnancy can have a variety of harmful consequences on the fetus. Lifelong effects include growth restriction, characteristic facial anomalies, and neurobehavioral dysfunction. This range of effects is known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). There is no amount, pattern, or timing of alcohol use during pregnancy proven safe for a developing embryo or fetus. Therefore, it is important to screen patients for alcohol use, inform them about alcohol's potential effects during pregnancy, encourage abstinence, and refer for intervention if necessary...
The 30 country fact sheets for EU Member States, Norway and Switzerland present data on consumption, consequence, and policy implementation for the year 2016, aiming to give guidance to national decision-makers for further priority-setting in the field of alcohol and public health.
Source: Probst, C., Fleischmann, A., Gmel, G., Poznyak, V., Rekve, D., Riley, L., ... & Rehm, J. (2019). The global proportion and volume of unrecorded alcohol in 2015. Journal of Global Health, 9(1). Abstract BACKGROUND: Alcohol consumption is associated with elevated risks of disease and injury...
The NG-CDF held a conference at Mombasa, Kenya which included a section on addiction, drug and substance abuse. Facilitating this was an interactive and informative experience. Questions on drug and substance abuse effects on the work environment and performance at tasks were discussed.
Findings of this comprehensive review seem to almost entirely deflate what in the mid-2000s was a bubble of enthusiasm for parental programmes as a way to prevent or reduce drinking among teenagers - but despite this overall verdict, some interventions have had remarkable results.
Medisauskaite A, Kamau C Does occupational distress raise the risk of alcohol use, binge-eating, ill health and sleep problems among medical doctors? A UK cross-sectional study BMJ Open 2019;9:e027362. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027362
Abstract
Objectives: This study aims to assess the prevalence of health problems (eg, insomnia, binge-eating, substance use and ill health) among UK doctors and to investigate whether occupational distress increases the risk of health problems.
Design: This study reports the analysis of data collected at the baseline stage of a randomised controlled trial (protocol #NCT02838290).
Setting: Doctors were invited through medical Royal Colleges, the British Medical Association’s research panel and a random selection of NHS trusts across various UK regions.
Tran et al. Substance AbuseTreatment, Prevention, and Policy (2019) 14:21 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13011-019-0204-7
Abstract
Background
Globally, substance use disorders are prevalent and remain an intractable public health problem for health care systems. This study aims to provide a global picture of substance use disorders research.
Methods
The Web of Science platform was used to perform a cross-sectional analysis of scientific articles on substance use disorders and treatment. Characteristics of publication volume, impact, growth, authors, institutions, countries, and journals were examined using descriptive analysis and network visualization graphs.
Public Health England will be hosting a webinar to discuss their work to reduce alcohol harm and the latest evidence and best practice examples for improving liver health at 14:00 on 20 May.
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Glasgow Caledonian University, Strathclyde University, SHAAP and Glasgow Centre for Population Health
Based on recent research, Glasgow Caledonian University, Strathclyde University, SHAAP and Glasgow Centre for Population Health, have produced infographics to tackle stereotypes about men, women and drinking in Scotland.
Romo-Avilés, N., García-Carpintero, M. Á., & Pavón-Benítez, L. (2019). Not without my mobile phone: alcohol binge drinking, gender violence and technology in the Spanish culture of intoxication. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 1-11.
Abstract
The practice of binge drinking has in recent decades consolidated what is known as the ‘culture of intoxication’ among young people of Spain. This has coincided with the increase in the use of mobile-phone technology and of social networks within the night-time economy. Our main aim is to explore these new, potentially risky uses and violent behaviours, through an analysis of the discourses of the young people involved. This is a qualitative study with in-depth interviews (n = 24) of young people between the ages of sixteen and twenty-two, resident in two cities in the south of Spain...
A pesar de lo que dicen algunos mensajes y estudios de baja calidad, no hay pruebas científicas que justifiquen beber o empezar a beber por razones de salud. En este vídeo se explican estas razones y la evaluación del mensaje realizada en Nutrimedia.
Source: Yeung, S. L. A., & Lam, T. H. (2019). Unite for a Framework Convention for Alcohol Control. The Lancet. In the 2012 UN Political Declaration, when describing the main contributors to the four most prominent non-communicable diseases, the term harmful use is only used to describe alcohol use...