Alcohol and the Community: A Systems Approach to Prevention (International Research Monographs in the Addictions) - Softcover

Holder, Harold D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052103504X ISBN 13: 9780521035040

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

An individual's decision to use alcohol and the frequency, quantity and situation of such use are the result of a combination of biological and social factors. Drinking is not only a personal choice, but also a matter of custom and social behaviour, and is influenced by access and economic factors including levels of disposable income and cost of alcoholic beverages. Until prevention efforts cease to focus narrowly on the individual and begin to adopt broader community perspectives on alcohol problems and strategies to reduce them, these efforts will fail. This book, first published in 1998, challenges the current implicit models used in alcohol problem prevention and demonstrates an ecological perspective of the community as a complex adaptive system composed of interacting subsystems, an appreciation and understanding of which offers an alternative approach to the prevention of alcohol dependence and alcohol-related problems.

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Alcohol and the Community Offers an ecological perspective of the community as an alternative approach to the prevention of alcohol-related problems. Full description

Review

'Anyone with an interest in alcohol policy of prevention will be enriched by reading this monograph. Libraries should look out for the IRMA series.' Addiction Biology

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052103504X
• ISBN 13: 9780521035040
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200