Public Health Mini-Guides: Alcohol Misuse E-book

Angela Scriven, Ken Barrie

Description

The Hot Topics in Public Health series

Hot Topics in Public Health consists of a series of small pocketbooks, focussing on the key public health issues identified by the UK government priorities. The books will be of use to a wide audience of students and practitioners, in the Nursing and Allied Health areas, as all students in these areas do modules on Public Health and Health Promotion, as well as those doing a diploma or degree in PH&HP.

Students will find the books useful to cover assignments and on the ward, and practitioners will love the quick-reference format for use on the ward and in giving patient advice and running clinics on these topics.

There will be a title providing essential information on the priority areas of:

• Obesity
• Smoking
• Alcohol misuse

• Sexual health
• Mental health

• Diabetes
• Non-communicable diseases
• Exercise
• Drug misuse
• Health inequalities

• Boxes
• Thinking points - will be of interest to practitioners
• Key debates
• Case studies
• Current strategies – Gov. targets
• Further Reading
• Useful web links.

Sujets

• Medical
• Médecine
• Nursing
• Nurse
• Patient

Informations

• Publié par: Churchill Livingstone
• Date de parution: 14 juin 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780702047237
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

Public Health Mini-Guide Alcohol Misuse
First Edition
Ken Barrie
Senior Lecturer in Alcohol and Drug Studies, School of Social Sciences, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, Scotland
Angela Scriven
Reader in Health Promotion, Brunel University, London, UK

Series editor:
Angela Scriven
Table of Contents
Cover image
Title page
About the authors
Copyright
Dedication
Series page
Series preface
What the Public Health Mini-Guides provide
Preface
1: Alcohol consumption
Short-term effects of alcohol consumption
Drinking culture
Alcohol content
Recommended guidelines
Levels and patterns of consumption
Alcohol expenditure and sales
Population surveys on alcohol behaviour
National and regional differences in alcohol consumption
Social and cultural influences on alcohol consumption
Web pages and resources
2: The health and legal consequences of problem drinking
Economic costs of problem drinking
The relationships between alcohol and health
Alcohol and non-communicable diseases
Alcohol and offending
Costs of alcohol-related offending
Criminal justice system disposals
Web pages and resources
3: Dependent drinkers and recovery
Definitions and terminology
A model of change
Mutual self-help
Specialist treatment: Part of recovery for some
A brief history of treatment research
Treatment matching
Pharmacological interventions
Treatment-outcome similarity
What should specialist treatment look like?
General principles for all interventions
Web pages and resources
4: Family and workplace
The role of the family in socialising young drinkers
The impact of the problem drinker on the family
Four types of family-focused intervention
Alcohol and the workplace
Web pages and resources
5: Public health interventions
The price of alcohol
Controlling drinking environments
Alcohol education
Web pages and resources
6: Alcohol brief interventions (ABIs)
Identification of and screening for ABI
Alcohol brief interventions
Screening and ABI in service settings
ABI barriers: The workforce
Web pages and resources
References
Index
About the authors
Ken Barrie is a senior lecturer in Alcohol and Drug Studies in the School of Social Sciences at the University of the West of Scotland, where he has worked for 30 years. He is the programme leader for the MSc/Postgraduate Programme in Alcohol and Drug Studies. His main interests are treatment interventions and services for problem drinkers and drug users as well as public policy interventions as means of reducing harm. He has conducted commissioned research on substance use issues and service design for public bodies. He is currently investigating the links between poverty and problem substance use. His most recent book is Alcohol (2012). He is a member of the Society for the Study of Addiction.
Angela Scriven is Reader in Health Promotion at Brunel University in London, UK. She has been teaching and researching in the field of health promotion for more than 30 years and has published widely, including authoring, editing or co-editing the following books: Health Promotion Alliances : Theory and Practice (1998), Health Promotion : Professional Perspectives (1996, 2001), Promoting Health : Global Perspectives (2005), Health Promoting Practice : The Contribution of Nurses and Allied Health Professionals (2005), Public Health : Social Context and Action (2007), Promoting Health : A Practical Guide (2010), Health Promotion for Health Practitioners (2010), and Health Promotion Settings : Principles and Practice . Her research centres on the relationship between health promotion policy and practice within specific contexts. She is a member of the International Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE), is President Elect of the Institute of Health Promotion and Education (IHPE), and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH).
Copyright

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Notices
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Printed in China
Dedication
For Nancy
Series page
Titles in the Public Health Mini-Guide series :
Obesity
Nick Townsend, Angela Scriven
ISBN 9780702046346
Alcohol Misuse
Ken Barrie, Angela Scriven
ISBN 9780702046384
Diabetes (forthcoming)
Josie Evans, Angela Scriven
ISBN 9780702046377
Series preface
Angela Scriven, Uxbridge
In the Foreword to its strategy for public health in England, the Healthy Lives, Healthy People White Paper ( The Stationery Office, 2010 ), the UK government highlighted some of the public health challenges facing those working to improve public health: ‘Britain is now the most obese nation in Europe. We have among the worst rates of sexually transmitted infections recorded, a relatively large population of problem drug users and rising levels of harm from alcohol. Smoking alone claims over 80,000 lives in every year. Experts estimate that tackling poor mental health could reduce our overall disease burden by nearly a quarter. Health inequalities between rich and poor have been getting progressively worse’. The public health targets are clear, both in the White Paper and in Our Health and Wellbeing Today ( Department of Health, 2010 ), which was published to accompany the White Paper. The targets include policies for mental health, tobacco control, obesity, sexual health, and overall health.
The proposals and priorities identified in the White Paper apply to England, but they are of equal concern in the Devolved Administrations and globally, as evidenced in World Health Organization (WHO) reports ( www.who.int/whr/en/index.html ). The Public Health Mini-Guides series covers some of the key health targets identified by the UK government and WHO. The Mini-Guides highlight, in a concise, easily accessible manner, what the problems are and the range of potential solutions available to those professionals who have a responsibility to promote health.
What the Public Health Mini-Guides provide
The Mini-Guides are written to provide up-to-date, evidence-based information in a convenient pocket-sized format on a range of current key public health topics. They support the work of health and social care practitioners and students on courses related to public health and health promotion. Each volume provides an objective and balanced introduction to an overview of the epidemiological, scientific, and other factors relating to public health. The Mini-Guides are structured to provide easy access to information. The first chapters cover background information needed to quickly understand the issue, including epidemiology, demography, and physiology. The later chapters explore examples of public health action to address the issue, covering health promotion interventions and legislative and other measures. The Mini-Guides are designed to be essential reference texts for students, practitioners, and researchers who have a professional interest in public health and health promotion.