Caribbean Adolescents: Misuse & Abuse of Alcohol (Public Health: Practices, Methods and Policies) - Hardcover

Cecilia Hegamin-Younger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1634858808 ISBN 13: 9781634858809

Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Inc, 2017

Synopsis

When an economy is fueled by the alcohol industry, which is a powerful and a resource-intense industry, governments who lack technical capacity and financial resources to combat the alcohol industry may fear the economic impact of restrictive alcohol polices. How can a country address the public health concerns from alcohol misuse and abuse? Because alcohol is no ordinary commodity, the public has a right to understand and expect a more enlightened approach to the development and implementation of an alcohol policy. An enlightened approach of using evidence to inform policies, include key members of the community and target the general population, at high-risk drinkers and at people already experiencing alcohol-related problems. Alcohol is a drug and a currency, making it a unique commodity. In this book, the authors present research on alcohol and advertisement, alcohol related traffic accidents, suicidal behavior and many more aspects of alcohol use and misuse in the Caribbean area.

About this title

About the Author:

Cecilia Hegamin-Younger, PhD is professor of biostatistics at St George's University Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Grenada, the West Indies and a faculty mentor at the University of Michigan Office of Public Health Practice and the University of Illinois, Department of Public Health, United States. Dr Hegamin-Younger is a liaison with the Drug Control Secretariat of Grenada and the Inter-American Drug Control Commission. Her current research focuses on drug epidemiology, gender issues and child abuse. Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc, born and educated in Denmark is professor of pediatrics, child health and human development, Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel and Kentucky Children's Hospital, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky United States and professor of public health at the Center for Healthy Development, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, United States, the medical director of the Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, the founder and director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Inc
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1634858808
• ISBN 13: 9781634858809
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 140