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Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access originally published online on March 6, 2007
Alcohol and Alcoholism 2007 42(3):272-273; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agm002
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The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Medical Council on Alcohol.

Alcohol and prisons: report of a workshop held by WHO HIPP at the eurocare bridging the gap conference, Helsinki, November 2006

Lesley Graham*

Author to whom correspondence should be addressed at: E-mail: Lesley.Graham@isd.csa.scot.nhs.uk

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A major European Alcohol Policy Conference, Bridging the Gap, was held in Helsinki, Finland from 20th to 22nd of November 2006. The World Health Organisation Health in Prison Project (WHO HIPP)1 convened a workshop on the subject of Alcohol in Prisons. The workshop was led by Dr Alex Gatherer, WHO HIPP; Dr Andrew Fraser, Director of Health and Care, Scottish Prison Service; Dr Lesley Graham, Public Health Specialist, Scottish Prison Service and Dr Heikki Vartiainen, Medical Director, Prison Health Services, Helsinki, Finland.

Major strategic objectives of WHO HIPP were outlined, namely, to harmonize and integrate public health with prison health and to promote international awareness and best practice. A recent development in global public health thinking is the underpinning of human rights, and therefore the right to health, as a driver for health development and health for all. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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