The legal age limits in Europe
Raising the minimum age limits
for selling alcohol in ITALY
E. Scafato
Director National Observatory on Alcohol (ONA)
Director Population Health and Health determinants
Director WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion and Research on Alcohol
and Alcohol-related problems
National Centre for Epidemiology, Surveillance and Health Promotion (CNESPS)
Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Rome, Italy
President Società Italiana di Alcologi a - SIA
Amsterdam May 30th 2013
Eyes on Ages Conference
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Alcohol and young people
Alcohol and young people is a relatively recent Public Health
problem in Italy.
The Mediterranean style of alcohol consumption usually
referred in the household to drinking in moderation within
meals and under the formal control of the family members
included traditionally also the ban of drinking for minors and
for all the young people not still allowed by the adults to drink
alcoholic beverages, usually after the age of 16-18.
But something has changed
The so called “new market” and the increase of the alcoholic
beverages affordability and availability started in the beginning
of the third millennium in contributing to a really fast and
unexpected change in drinking models among the youngsters
as witnessed by the experience reported across Europe at the
end of the 90s.
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European Charter on Alcohol
Paris, december 1994
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Istituto Superiore di
Sanita’
From alcopops to Alcohol Policy:
reacting to threats to health of
young people in Europe.
Emanuele SCAFATO MD
Laboratorio di Epidemiologia e
Biostatistica
ENLAPRE, OPORTO 22/ 11/ 1999
Istituto Superiore
di Sanità
ALCOHOL and YOUNG PEOPLE
ALCOPOPS
Flavoured mixed alcoholic drinks with a suggestive style
of packaging particularly appealing
youth culture and taste
YOUNG PEOPLE & ALCOHOL
European recalls
PARIGI Dic. 1995
LUSSEMBURGO Giu. 2001
STOCCOLMA Febb. 2001
• Incrementare il grado di consapevolezza
Entro l'anno 2006:
Tutti i bambini e gli
1) ridurre in maniera rilevante il numero dei
dei giovani nei confronti del consumo delle
adolescenti hanno il
giovani che iniziano a consumare alcol;
bevande alcoliche
2) ritardare l'età in cui i giovani cominciano
diritto di crescere in un
• Ridurre il rischio legato al consumo di
a consumare alcol;
ambiente protetto dallealcol tra i giovani ed il suo impatto sociale e sanitario 3) incrementare
il livello di coinvolgimento dei
conseguenze negative
Giovani
nella
definizione
delle politiche giovanili
•
Sollecitare il mondo della produzione ad
legate
alla
salute,
in
particolare
per le questioni
del consumo di alcol e,
incrementare il livello di attenzione e la
che riguardano l'alcol;
per quanto possibile,
responsabilità sulle modalità di
4) aumentare l'educazione dei giovani sull'alcol;
5) ridurre al minimo le pressioni esercitate sui
dalla pubblicità di
confezionamento e di marketing dei
giovani per incitarli al consumo, specialmente
bevande
prodotti alcolici ribadendo
quelle derivanti dalle promozioni, distribuzioni
alcoliche.
l’inopportunità di utilizzare tecniche
gratuite, pubblicità, sponsorizzazioni e
indirizzate al target e alla cultura
giovanile
disponibilità relativi all’alcol, con particolare
attenzione alle manifestazioni
(sportive, musicali ecc)
Entro il 2015 il consumo di alcol al di sotto
dei 15 anni deve essere ZERO litri.
Il 25 % dei decessi registrati tra i maschi di età 15-29 sono legati all’alcol.
55 000 giovani nella Reg. Eur. WHO sono morti nel 1999 per cause legate all’uso di
ALCOHOL &
YOUNG PEOPLE
Declaration 2001
Istituto Superiore di
Sanita’
Protecting children and young people
from commercial pressure to drink
Italians start drinking on average at the age at 11-12, well under the
European average of 14. The onset of alcohol drinking for underage
has been for years traditionally strictly related with the family
permission to do it in connection with the celebration of particular
events and/or in some regional cultures with the “initiation” of young
males to the adult world. Alcohol drinking, in the Mediterranean style
was intended in moderation, within meals and always under the family
or the social control.
But something has changed during the last fifteen years.
Once enabled, young people follows different attitudes and trends
according to the nucleus of peers of reference and always far from the
adult or social control.
The meeting places, more than family, are the favourite places where
young people, even underage, are enabled to experiment or to
experience alcohol effects on relaxation, socialization, disinhibition
and the sense of belonging typical of the youth relationship based on
homologation.
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Underaged and alcoholic beverages
Since many years the prevalence of drinkers among children and
adolescents is far to be close to zero as expectable in terms of an
effective Public Health perspective. Even with a slight decreasing trend
experienced after the activation of specific strategies by the Ministry of
Health and the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 18,2 % of 11-16 years old
youngsters drank alcoholic beverages in 2010, 20,8 % males, 18,2 %
females.
Beer drinkers are the most relevant part of under-aged in both sex
followed by the alcoholic aperitifs (RTDs, breezer), wine, spirits and
bitter (the so called “amari” drinkers, 35 degree of alcoholic strength
much more typical of the older consumption).
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Young people and alcoholic beverages
The increase in prevalence of very young drinkers when they grow-up to 17-18
years is more than relevant. The prevalence of those who drank alcoholic beverages
in 2010 was 60,3 %, 66,3 % males, 54 % females. The evidence of this crucial shift
identified thanks to the new national survey and monitoring standard represented a
relevant starting point for the setting of new prevention strategies. The increase in
prevalence of drinkers has been mainly supported by beer drinking and the
alcoholic aperitifs drinking (RTDs, breezer) with an observed convergence in the
prevalence between males and females supported mainly by the rise in females
drinkers rate during the last three years for all the different alcoholic beverages
probably due to a major appeal exerted by marketing on the teen-agers. For young
males the trends was observed decreasing during the period 2003-2010.
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Underaged and risky behaviours
The Osservatorio Nazionale Alcol CNESPS estimates that
the prevalence of young people drinking between meals
and hazardous drinkers decreased during the last few
years probably thanks to the national campaigns mostly
active on the very recent younger generation.
The effects are not detected for binge drinkers.
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Young people and risky behaviours
The Osservatorio Nazionale Alcol CNESPS estimates that the
prevalence of young people drinking between meals it is maximum
among the 18-24 (48,5 % males, 35 % females) and well beyond the
women national average of 14.2 % among the 16-17 years old female.
More than 450.000 adolescents aged 11-15 and more than 500.000 young
people aged 16-20 are harmful consumers in Italy as reported in the last
Report of the Ministry of Health to the Parliament. (Hazardous drinkers
statistics are available only since 2008)
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Alcohol and young people
raising the minimum age limits in Italy
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Setting and enforcing age limits for selling and serving of alcoholic beverages is
among the most effective measures to curb alcohol use and harm among the young.
The actions towards revising age restrictions for selling and serving alcoholic
beverages upwards towards age 18 has been subject in Italy to several
institutional discussions, project or proposal of laws.
The National Committee on Alcohol, acknowledging the statements of the first
National Conference on Alcohol held in Rome in 2010 provided the competent
Ministries with a number of advices formally published and submitted to the
Parliament according to the law 125/2001 mandates. It should be noted that the
article of the law (Code Rocco) banning the serving (and not the sale) to
individuals below the age of 16 years is active since 1932 and no efforts have
been made til 2010 to modify the age limit and to introduce the ban on sales (and
not only on serving as it is) .
Italy was still one among the few countries (GR, IT, LU, MT, PT) implementing a
lower limit of 16.
An essential component of age restrictions concerns the effectiveness of
enforcement; the relevant number of young people receiving alcohol by adults in the
on-premises, off-premises and in the family is a fair good indicator on how and why
Italy was scored by the ECAS study as one of the lowest alcohol control and
alcohol policy strictness Countries.
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Strictness of alcohol policies in the BtG countries in 2005
according to subgroups of alcohol control.
ITALY as a Low alcohol control countries ECAS
list.
Slovenia
Slovakia
It aly
P ort ugal
Spain
Romania
Germany
Bulgaria
Aust ria
Malt a
Greece
Czech Republic
Cyprus
Luxembourg
0
5
10
15
Control of p roduction and wholesale (2 p oints)
Age limits (4 p oints)
Control of distribution (10 p oints)
Control of marketing (3 p oints)
BAC limits (4 p oints)
Alcohol taxation (16 p oints)
Public p olicy (1 p oint)
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ALCOHOL : the framework for
action in ITALY
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NATIONAL HEALTH PLAN
LAWS and REGULATIONS
NATIONAL ALCOHOL AND
HEALTH PLAN
NATIONAL COMMITTEE
(Consulta Nazionale Alcol)
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The devolution of competencies on health
The Regions
After the introduction of the devolution of
health matters to the Region’s authonomy,
the National Health Plan, even if produced
in form of a framework document, has
started to represent a process and a
matter of negotiation of priorities agreed
between the Government and the Regions,
recognising different possible ways of
managing health problems in different
social,
economic,
cultural
and
epidemiological contexts.
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The devolution of competencies on safety
The Municipalities
Anther devolution on safety and security
matters to the Municipalities represented a
new way to deal with problems related with
alcohol in the community (violence
prevention, crime prevention, road safety,
public orders problems in the streets )
opening the possibilities for the Mayors of
the cities to deal with authonomy in
managing local problems in different
social, economic, cultural operative
modalities.
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WHO HEALTH 21
“Target 12” ?
16 September 1999 – Florence – Italy – WHO Regional Committee for Europe Resolution
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The Frame Law on Alcohol (nr 125/2001)
RIGHTS not PRINCIPLES
Art. 2 - Aims
This law:
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ensures all people’s rights, especially children and
adolescents, to a family, community and working life
protected from the consequences of alcoholic beverages
abuse;
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fosters access to health and social treatment services for
heavy drinkers and their families;
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promotes information and education on the negative
consequences of alcohol consumption and abuse;
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promotes research and ensures adequate standards of
training and updating for professionals dealing with alcohol
related problems;
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supports non profit non-governmental and voluntary
organisations which aim is to prevent or reduce alcoholrelated problems.
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Monitoring alcohol : basic for policy
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Targets on Alcohol
The devolution process confirmed the overall
approach for Health Planning leaving to the
regional autonomies the implementation of
strategies and programs oriented by the
National Health Plan.
Two main targets were mostly considered at
National, Regional and Municipality level :

Underaged protection/age limits
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Drink driving
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A NEW WAY TO DEAL WITH ALCOHOL
The National Alcohol and Health Plan
PNAS 2007-2009
According to the need to have a National
Health Strategy on Alcohol the Ministry of
Health is actually planning to implement a
national alcohol strategy/action (National
Alcohol and Health Plan - PNAS)
implementing at the National level the
WHO EAAP strategy and the recent
Framework for Alcohol Policy.
The PNAS has been endorsed in April
2007 by the State- Regions Conference.
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The strategies of PNAS
2007-2009 and 2009-2012
Alcohol and minors
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reduction of the limits of blood alcohol
concentration for safe driving and more effective
enforcement of regulations on limits to blood
alcohol concentrations when driving;
initiatives to promote a ban on the sale of
alcoholic beverages to minors;
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Actions implemented in Italy ( 2007)
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Enforcement against serving intoxicated persons,
new rules on sales of alcoholic beverages
forbidden in discos after 2 a.m. (by law 3/10/2007)
Mandatory BAC and drugs controls for public
transport driver and for a long list of working
activities considered at higher risk for community
safety (by State-Region agreement 16/03/2007)
Better enforcement of age limits for serving;
proposal to complement current ban for
serving with a new ban of sales to underaged
and to increase from 16 to 18 the serving/sales
limit
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Out of meals alcohol consumption
Tra 1998 e 2007:
Crescita del consumo almeno una volta la settimana dal 5,1% al
7% per la popolazione di 14 anni e più
Forte crescita del consumo di alcolici fuori pasto tra i
ragazzi di 14-17 anni: dal 12,6% al 20,5%
Crescita maggiore tra le ragazze: dal 9,7% al 17,9%
Maschi
Fem m ine
Maschi e fem m ine
24,2
14-17enni
22,7
20,7
18,4
18,0
16,8
17,2
15,2
15,4
15,9
15,1
18,7
20,6
20,5
18,2
16,8
16,3
15,6
17,9
14,5
12,6
12,8
20,5
13,7
12,2
11,5
9,7
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2005
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2007
More than 4 millions of binge drinkers
Over the average 18-24 and 25-44 years old
390.000 below the legal age
30
Maschio
Femmine
25
20
15
23.3
10
18.8
10.3
5
1.6 1.5
13.4
12.4
9.7
5.1
3.6
2.7
6.5
1.2
3.3 1.1
3.5
0
11-15
16-17
18-24
25-44
45-64
65-74
75+
≥ 11 anni
Classi di età
Fonte: Dalla presentazione del Ministro della Salute della relazione al Parlamento
2011
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Municipalities Efforts.
Barrage of New Rules Targets Italy's Drinkers
By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
Published: August 4, 2009
ROME — In an effort to regulate the sale of alcoholic beverages and control
potential abuse, lawmakers in Italy have recently concocted a series of
measures that critics describe as a cocktail for confusion.
In Bologna, for example, commercial venues that sell alcohol (excluding
restaurants and bars) must now close by 10 p.m.
In Florence, Mayor Matteo Renzi last week passed a special law to ensure that
the city’s tripe vendors could continue to sell Chianti wine to wash down the
local delicacy even after a national law went into effect banning itinerant
merchants from selling liquor.
And Milan ’ s city hall has just passed a law that imposes fines on bars and
restaurants serving alcohol to anyone under 16.
“We’re the first to do it in Italy, and we hope to be the first to see positive
results,” Mayor Letizia Moratti of Milan said in a July 17 press release.
But serving alcohol to minors under 16 has been a criminal offense since 1929.
Selling alcohol to minors in supermarkets or stores, however, is not.
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NATIONAL DEBATE ABOUT LAWS
ENFORCEMENT
ON UNDERAGED PROTECTION
Art. 689 Codice Penale (1929)
Strict control aimed at verifying :
- minimum legal age of 16
- intoxication
- mental health diseases
- other cognitive impairment or diseases
Furthermore VENDING HOURS respect
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Only serving or
SERVING AND SELLING?
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SELLING AND SERVING
NO LEGAL DISTINCTION
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SELLING AND SERVING
MEANING : NO AVAILABILITY FOR MINORS
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Affordability change targeting young
1996-2006 (Rand Report)
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AVAILABILITY. Social alert and media
campaignes on VENDING MACHINE
infringement of laws
«No control for minors»
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VENDING MACHINE infringement of laws
«No control for minors»
Messaggero Cronaca di Roma , 2 giugno 2010
NO STOP ALCOHOL
Movida: alcohol vending hours alcohol infringed
I distributori automatici di
bevande alcoliche aperti 24
ore su 24, nei punti caldi
della movida del centro
storico, beffano l'ordinanza
anti-pubs ’ crawl.
Da
Fontana di Trevi a piazza
Santi Apostoli, fino a corso
Rinascimento il tour della
sbronza , lo si può fare
tranquillamente.
Da
Fontana di Trevi a piazza
Santi Apostoli, fino a corso
Rinascimento il tour della
sbronza , lo si può fare
tranquillamente
Solo due mesi fa c'era un
negozietto di souvenirs.
Ora
al
posto
degli
espositori con le cartoline
ci sono quattro frigo
carichi di alcolici.
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Municipalities respons to VENDING MACHINE
laws infringement
«No control for minors»
Milan, vending machines confiscation
La polizia locale ha elevato una multa da 308 euro al titolare del bar sulla base del
testo unico per il commercio della Regione Lombardia, che non consente la vendita
di alcolici in distributori automatici. In attesa del pagamento della contravvenzione,
l'apparecchiatura è stata sequestrata: dopo potrà essere riutilizzata, ma
naturalmente senza l'offerta di birra o cocktail alcolici.
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MUNICIPALITIES REGULATION ENFORCEMENT
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Law 189/2012
Setting and enforcing new age limits
The actions towards revising age restrictions for selling and
serving alcoholic beverages upwards towards age 18 has been
subject to several institutional discussions, project or proposal
of laws and finalized by the Parliament in 2012.
The law 189/2012 acknowledges the National Committee on
Alcohol opinions and the statements of the first National
Conference on Alcohol held in Rome in 2010 providing the
competent Ministries with specific NEW RULES
rising from 16 to 18 the minimum legal age
 introducing the ban for selling to underaged
overcoming the historical “limit” of serving.
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Divieto di vendita alcolici ai minori di anni 18
G.U. n. 263 del 10 novembre 2012, legge 8 novembre 2012, n.189
La legge modifica il dL 13.09.2012, n.158 recante “Disposizioni urgenti per
promuovere lo sviluppo del Paese mediante un più alto livello di tutela della salute”,
(decreto salute Balduzzi) inserendo nell’art.7 importanti novità per la vendita di
alcolici; in particolare:
a. il comma 3-bis modifica la legge 30 marzo 2001, n.125, che reca la “Legge
quadro in materia di alcol e di problemi alcol correlati”, introduce l’art.14-ter.
Art.14-ter. (Introduzione del divieto di vendita di bevande
alcoliche a minori).
1. (IDENTITY CHECK) Chiunque vende bevande alcoliche ha
l'obbligo di chiedere all'acquirente, all'atto dell'acquisto,
l'esibizione di un documento di identità, tranne che nei casi in cui
la maggiore età dell'acquirente sia manifesta.
2. (PENALTIES) Salvo che il fatto non costituisca reato, si applica
la sanzione amministrativa pecuniaria da 250 a 1000 euro a
chiunque vende bevande alcoliche ai minori di anni diciotto.
(Repeated infringement) Se il fatto è commesso più di una volta si
applica la sanzione amministrativa pecuniaria da 500 a 2000 euro
con la sospensione dell'attività per tre mesi".
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ALCOHOL
and ALCOHOL- RELATED
for
HEALTH PROBLEMS
Divieto di vendita alcolici ai minori di anni 18
G.U. n. 263 del 10 novembre 2012, legge 8 novembre 2012, n.189
b. Art. 689 PENAL CODE modified with introduction of two new
commas on VENDING MACHINE and new PENALTIES
“1. L'esercente un'osteria o un altro pubblico spaccio di cibi o di bevande,
il quale somministra, in un luogo pubblico o aperto al pubblico,
bevande alcooliche a un minore degli anni sedici, o a persona che
appaia affetta da malattia di mente, o che si trovi in manifeste
condizioni di deficienza psichica a causa di un'altra infermità, è punito
con l'arresto fino a un anno.
1-bis La stessa pena di cui al primo comma si applica a chi pone in
essere una delle condotte di cui al medesimo comma, attraverso
distributori automatici che non consentano la rilevazione dei dati
anagrafici dell'utilizzatore mediante sistemi di lettura ottica dei
documenti. La pena di cui al periodo precedente non si applica
qualora sia presente sul posto personale incaricato di effettuare
il controllo dei dati.
1-ter Se il fatto di cui al primo comma e' commesso più di una volta
si applica anche la sanzione amministrativa pecuniaria da 1000 a
25000 euro con la sospensione dell'attività per tre mesi.
2. Se dal fatto deriva l'ubriachezza, la pena è aumentata.
3. La condanna importa la sospensione dall'esercizio.
Osservatorio Nazionale Alcol - World Health Organization Collaborating Centre
RESEARCH and HEALTH
PROMOTION on
ALCOHOL
and ALCOHOL- RELATED
for
HEALTH PROBLEMS
FURTHER NEEDS FOR ACTION
AGE LIMITS do not represent the only
one solution to tackle the increased
exposure to alcohol-related risk by
underaged.
Drink driving and marketing regulation are
the two most relevant threaths to health
and safety that have requested attention
and new laws succesfully introduced in
Italy last year together with the call for
setting renewed GUIDELINES for alcohol
consumption.
Osservatorio Nazionale Alcol - World Health Organization Collaborating Centre
RESEARCH and HEALTH
PROMOTION on
ALCOHOL
and ALCOHOL- RELATED
for
HEALTH PROBLEMS
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WHAT IS NEEDED
for a successful ALCOHOL strategy
Community
leaders
Information
by medical service
providers
Peer information
and partner
information
Sport’s,
culture’s,
music’s
leaders
Information by
pharmacists
INFORMATION
&
EDUCATION
•promote life skills
•support environments
•provide protection
•reduce harm
The mass media:
- radio
- press
- television
GPs and social
councelling
Health education by schools,
universities, etc.
Health education by parents,
grandparents and relatives
Osservatorio Nazionale Alcol - World Health Organization Collaborating Centre
RESEARCH and HEALTH
PROMOTION on
ALCOHOL
and ALCOHOL- RELATED
for
HEALTH PROBLEMS
Osservatorio Nazionale Alcol - World Health Organization Collaborating Centre
RESEARCH and HEALTH
PROMOTION on
ALCOHOL
and ALCOHOL- RELATED
for
HEALTH PROBLEMS
Conclusions
Science and research contribution is fundamental to serve policy in providing
scientific evidence, in evaluating policies where evidence is lacking and can
effectively guide policymaking in providing the information on which future
policies may be based.
A reinforced supporting role for public health, the society, the families has to be
provided to give to young people the ability to make changes or healthy choices,
stressing and recognising the individual’s responsibility to decide if, how, when
and why to use these opportunity.
The challenge for the present is to have policy-makers, society and institutions
committed in overcoming a prevalent market-oriented decision-making process
repositioning health as a more relevant value than a “no ordinary commodity”.
The challenge for the future is to reach a balance between social marketing and
commercial marketing and alcohol communication hopefully giving them same
opportunities, strictly ensuring that the promotion of new and old alcoholic
beverages do not target children and adolescents.
The final goal is to support peoples right to be protected by misleading
information on alcohol and always allowed to make informed choices and
supported in adopting healthy lifestyles and model of consumption.
Osservatorio Nazionale Alcol - World Health Organization Collaborating Centre
RESEARCH and HEALTH
PROMOTION on
ALCOHOL
and ALCOHOL- RELATED
for
HEALTH PROBLEMS
Renewing the challenge for the
Third Millennium.
INVESTING FOR HEALTH
Rome ISS 1999
Istituto Superiore di Sanità
2013 Roma
18 aprile
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l’attenzione
Osservatorio Nazionale Alcol - World Health Organization Collaborating Centre
RESEARCH and HEALTH
PROMOTION on
ALCOHOL
and ALCOHOL- RELATED
for
HEALTH PROBLEMS