Abstract
Application of the public health model of primary prevention to the prevention of alcohol-related problems suggests that public hospitals can be significant partners in community-based prevention efforts. Injury and illness related to alcohol use place a high level of demand on public hospital resources, and their participation in prevention efforts is a promising and underutilized way of reducing this demand. Avenues of participation in prevention include improved data collection and reporting, identification and referral of problem-drinking patients, greater dissemination of data on alcohol-related problems to the general public, liaison with victim assistance groups and community-based alcohol-problem prevention organizations, involvement in public policy regarding alcohol use, and the development of prevention messages from a medical perspective. Implementing some or all of these approaches can be done with little extra cost, through using local government alcohol program staff and resources, integration of alcohol-related problem prevention issues into staff training, liaison with professional educational institutions with expertise on alcohol, networking with alcohol policy organizations, incentives for staff participation in health-related professional organizations giving alcohol policy issues higher priority, and the development of a permanent on-site prevention component.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 324-352 |
| Number of pages | 29 |
| Journal | Journal of Public Health Policy |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| State | Published - 1989 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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Alcohol-related problems and public hospitals : Defining a new role in prevention. / Jernigan, D. H.; Mosher, J. F.; Reed, D. F.
In: Journal of Public Health Policy, Vol. 10, No. 3, 1989, p. 324-352.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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