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Sunday, April 27, 2008

World Health Assembly set to discuss alcohol


The Health ministers from all over the world will discuss the health burden of alcohol in the forthcoming World Health Assembly to be held in Geneva 14-23 May. This is the follow up of the WHA resolution 58.26 Public health problems caused by harmful use of alcohol, from 2005, the first WHA resolution exclusively on alcohol since 1983. The documents for the alcohol issue are now available on the WHO site.
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WHA documents:

WHA resolution 58.26 Public health problems caused by harmful use of alcohol (pdf from WHO site)

A60/14 (pdf rfrm the WHO site)
Evidence-based strategies and interventions to reduce alcohol-related harm

A60/14 Add.1 (pdf from the WHO site)
Evidence-based strategies and interventions to reduce alcohol-related harm; Global assessment of public-health problems caused by harmful use of alcohol

EB121/10 (pdf from the WHO site)
Expert committees and study groups.
This document contains the WHO Expert Committee On Problems Related To Alcohol Consumption, Second report, Geneva, 10–13 October 2006. Part of the document
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