Impact of Addictive Substances and Behaviours on Individual (Governance of Addictive Substances and Behaviours) - Softcover

Anderson; Rehm; Room

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198714009 ISBN 13: 9780198714002

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2015

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Analyzes the impact of addictive drugs (alcohol, nicotine and illegal drugs) and behaviors (gambling) on the health and wellbeing of individuals.

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Peter Anderson, Professor of Substance Use, Policy and Practice and Professor of Alcohol and Health, Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, UK and Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Netherlands,Jurgen Rehm, Director, Social and Epidemiological Research Department, Centre for Addictions and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, Canada,Robin Room, Professor and Director, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne and Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs, Stockholm University and Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre, Victoria, Australia

An international expert in the impact of alcohol and addictions on health and well-being, and in the impact of policies and programmes to reduce the harm done by alcohol, tobacco and addictions, Dr Anderson is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Health and Well-being. From 1992 to 2000, he worked as the regional advisor for both tobacco and alcohol with the European Office of the World Health Organization and directed the Department of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. He is an adviser in public health, alcohol, tobacco and addictions to the European Commission and the African, European, Western Pacific and Headquarters offices of the World Health Organization. He is the international coordinator of the ALICE RAP project, Addictions and Lifestyles in Contemporary Europe - Reframing Addiction's Project, www.alicerap.eu http://www.alicerap.eu.

Jurgen Rehm, PhD, is a trained epidemiologist and public health researcher and is currently holding the positions as Director, Social and Epidemiological Research (SER) Department, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, Canada; Professor and Chair, Addiction Policy, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto (UofT), Canada; Senior scientist and Head, Population health research group, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. He works as consulting expert for several governments in Europe, North America and Thailand as well as for EU, WHO and World Bank and held memberships in various professional organizations. In 2003 he was awarded with the Jellinek Memorial Fund Award for outstanding contributions to the advancement of knowledge on alcohol/alcoholism (Epidemiology and population studies).



Robin Room is a sociologist who has directed alcohol and drug research centres in the United States, Canada and Sweden, and now in Australia, his native country. He has received awards for scientific contributions in the U.S., Sweden and Australia, including the premier international award in alcohol studies, the Jellinek Memorial Award for Alcohol Studies. He has been an advisor for the World Health Organisation since 1975, and is Editor-in Chief of Drug and Alcohol Review. Professor Room's research is on social, cultural and epidemiological studies of alcohol, drugs and gambling behaviour and problems, and studies of social responses to alcohol and drug problems and of the effects of policy changes.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0198714009
• ISBN 13: 9780198714002
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 268
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