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Alcohol and Alcoholism Vol. 35, No. 6, pp. 628, 2000
© 2000 Medical Council on Alcoholism

Book Reviews

Alcohol and the Community: A Systems Approach to Prevention.

By Harold Holder. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 1999, 183pp. including index, £45. ISBN: 0521591872.

Bruce Ritson

We are all familiar with community action projects concerning alcohol, education initiatives, and innovative treatments all of which promise much, attract enthusiasm and some funding, and yet when evaluated, produce little change; many programmes will prove to have no clear cut measures by which to assess their impact. Holder is very well aware of the difficulties experienced by communities worldwide in their endeavours to minimize ‘alcohol-involved’ problems. His thesis is that preventive strategies have been too narrow in their focus and have failed to recognize the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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