Alcohol

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-965578-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)

Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1042 g

Alcohol has always been an issue in public health but it is currently assuming increasing importance as a cause of disease and premature death worldwide. Alcohol: Science, Policy, and Public Health provides an interdisciplinary source of information that links together, the usually separate fields of, science, policy, and public health. This comprehensive volume highlights the importance of bringing scientific knowledge to bear in order to strengthen and develop alcohol public policy.

The book looks at the historical evolution of alcohol consumption in society, key early studies of alcohol and disease, and the cultural and social aspects of alcohol consumption. It then goes on to cover the chemistry and biology of alcohol, patterns of consumption, gender and age-related issues, alcohol and injury, alcohol and cancer and non-malignant disease, and various current therapeutic aspects. The book concludes with a section on alcohol policy, looking at issues of poverty, the availability of alcohol and alcohol control measures.

This major reference, written by international leaders in the fields of alcoholism and alcohol policy, provides a comprehensive study of one of the foremost health problems in the world, and represents the highest standards of research within the field.

It will be valuable to physicians and health professionals involved with patients with alcohol-related problems, scientists, public health specialists, health policy specialists, researchers and legislators as well as students of public health.

Zielgruppe

Physicians and scientists in the field of disease prevention, public health specialists, health policy specialists and researchers, masters and doctoral students of public health and occupational health specialists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boyle, Peter

Boffetta, Paolo

Lowenfels, Albert B.

Burns, Harry

Brawley, Otis

Zatonski, Witold

Rehm, Jürgen

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Acknowledgements

- Contributors

- I. Framing the issues

- 1: David J. Hanson: Historical evolution of alcohol consumption in society

- 2: Jürgen Rehm and Kevin Shield: Key studies of alcohol and disease

- 3: James C. Harris: Cultural aspects: Representations of alcohol use in visual art

- 4: Anya Taylor: Cultural aspects: Illustrations of alcohol use in literature

- 5: Judy Cornes: Cultural aspects: Alcohol use in film

- 6: Robin Room: Sociocultural aspects of alcohol consumption

- II. Alcohol: chemistry and biology

- 7: Laurence I. Peterson: Chemistry of alcoholic beverages

- 8: Philip J. Brooks and Samir Zakhari: Alcohol metabolism and genetic control

- 9: David Goldman: Implications of the genetics of alcoholism and addictions for public policy

- 10: Wolfgang H. Sommer: Pathophysiology of alcohol addiction

- 11: Wade Berrettini and Karl E. Rickels: Opioid pharmacogenetics of alcohol addiction

- III. Patterns of consumption

- 12: Gerhard Gmel, Kevin Shield, and Jürgen Rehm: Tools for estimating alcohol consumption

- 13: Gerhard Gmel, Florian Labhart, Kevin Shield, Marg Rylett, Dirk Lachenmeier, and Jürgen Rehm: A global overview of alcohol consumption patterns

- 14: David Zaridze: Impact of extreme drinking on mortality

- 15: Dirk W. Lachenmeier, Gerhard Gmel, and Jürgen Rehm: Unrecorded alcohol consumption

- IV. Alcohol: gender and age-related issues

- 16: Ralph W. Hingson and Aaron M. White: Adolescent and teenage drinking

- 17: Richard W. Wilsnack and Sharon C. Wilsnack: Gender and alcohol: consumption and consequences

- 18: Jennifer G. Plebani, David W. Oslin, and Adam B. Lipson: Alcohol use in the elderly

- V. Alcohol, injury, and violence

- 19: Scott Macdonald, Alissa Greer, Jeff Brubacher, Cheryl Cherpitel, Tim Stockwell, and Corneilia Zeisser: Alcohol consumption and injury

- 20: James C. Fell and Robert B. Voas: Alcohol and road traffic injury

- 21: Alex E. Crosby, Victoria Espitia-Hardeman, LaVonne Ortega, and Briana Lozano: Alcohol and suicide

- 22: Megan R. Gerber: Alcohol and intimate partner violence

- 23: Stephen K. Talpins, Robyn Robertson, Erin Holmes, and Matthew Dunagan: Violence and crime

- VI. Alcohol and cancer

- 24: CJ Peter Eriksson: Alcohol and carcinogenesis: mechanisms and biomarkers

- 25: Mia Hashibe, Binh Y. Goldstein, Lin Cai, and Zuo-Feng Zhang: Upper aerodigestive tumours: mouth, pharynx, larynx, and oesophagus

- 26: David Zaridze: Gastrointestinal tumours

- 27: Patrick Maisonneuve: Liver and pancreatic tumours

- 28: Peter Boyle: Alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk

- 29: Claudio Pelucchi and Carlotta Galeone: Bladder and genitourinary tumours

- VII. Alcohol and non-malignant disease

- 30: William H. Frishman: Cardiac disease

- 31: Kenneth J. Mukamal: Vascular disease

- 32: Julia B. Greer and Dhiraj Yadav: Benign diseases of the gastrointestinal tract

- 33: Michael H. Miller, Frank Sullivan, and John F. Dillon: Liver disease

- 34: Dhiraj Yadav: Pancreatitis

- 35: Dolly Baliunas: Diabetes

- 36: Tarakad S. Ramachandran: Neurological and mental disorders

- 37: Andriy V.Samokhvalov, Paul A. Shuper, and Jürgen Rehm: Infectious disease

- 38: Kenneth R. Warren and Margaret M. Murray: Alcohol and pregnancy: fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and the fetal alcohol syndrome

- VIII. Therapeutic aspects: current approaches

- 39: Amy O'Donnell and Eileen Kaner: Screening of high-risk drinkers

- 40: Eileen Kaner and Amy O'Donnell: Brief intervention: does it work?

- 41: Michael Soyka: Drug therapy: reviewing the evidence

- IX. Alcohol policy

- 42: Paul Miller and Marjana Martinic: 1. The private sector and public policy: can they be reconciled?

- 43: Aneel Karnani: Impact of alcohol on poverty and the need for appropriate policy

- 44: Esa Österberg: Control of alcohol availability: historical and current policies and their effects

- 45: Michael Livingston: Taxation and price control

- 46: Christine M. Wickens, Robert E. Mann, Gina Stoduto, Rosely Flam-Zalcman, and Jennifer Butters: Alcohol control measures and traffic safety

- 47: Claire Wilkinson: Public information and education campaigns

- 48: Harry Burns: Public information and education campaigns

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by Peter Boyle, President, International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France, Paolo Boffetta, Vice President for Research, International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France, Albert B. Lowenfels, Professor of Surgery and Community and Preventive Medicine, New York Medical College, New York, USA, Harry Burns, Chief Medical Officer, Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, Otis Brawley, Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President of the American Cancer Society, Emory University, Atlanta, USA, Witold Zatonski, Professor of Epidemiology, Marie Skodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Centre, Warsaw, Poland, and Jürgen Rehm, Director, Social and Epidemiological Research (SER) Department, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), and Senior Scientist and Head, Population Health Research Group, CAMH, Toronto, ON, Canada