CDC Guide to Community Preventive Services Alcohol Initiative: Strategies for reducing the impact of excessive alcohol consumption in our lives and our communities


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3323.0: Monday, December 12, 2005 - Board 3

Abstract #105871

Briana M. Lawrence, MPH¹, Gail Janes, PhD, MS¹, and Randy W. Elder, PhD². (1) The Guide to Community Preventive Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, M/S E90, Atlanta, GA 30333, 404 498 6333, dro6@cdc.gov, (2) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC, 4770 Buford Hwy., N.E., Mailstop K63, Atlanta, GA 30341

Background: Excessive alcohol consumption is the third leading cause of preventable death in the United States, and is a risk factor for many health and societal problems. There is a strong need for interventions of proven effectiveness to counter this problem. CDC Guide to Community Preventive Services is a compilation of evidence-based recommendations for population-based strategies to combat various public health problems, based on systematic literature reviews. The current initiative will identify and evaluate effective preventive strategies to reduce excessive alcohol consumption among both underage and general populations. Methods: The Guide's Alcohol Initiative advisory bodies, consisting of experts from public health, academic, and stakeholder organizations, considered 33 interventions for possible review. A Delphi approach was used for identifying those interventions of greatest promise, and an exhaustive search will be conducted for all studies relevant to each intervention chosen for review. Evidence of effectiveness from these studies will be assessed and summarized. Results: The Delphi process produced a list of 15 interventions for which there was a strong interest in the evaluation of effectiveness. The highest priority items on this list— increased alcohol taxes, enhanced enforcement of laws prohibiting provision of alcohol to minors, and multifaceted community based interventions—will be evaluated in the initial set of reviews. Conclusion: The non-Federal Task Force on Community Preventive Services will make recommendations the basis of these systematic reviews. These recommendations will help public health practitioners, and policy decision makers identify and implement effective interventions aimed at reducing the impact of excessive alcohol consumption.

Learning Objectives:

Learning Objectives

1. Describe the process for identifying interventions with high potential for reducing excessive alcohol consumption
2. List population-based interventions that are widely perceived to be of greatest promise for preventing excessive alcohol consumption
3. Discuss the preliminary results of a systematic review of the effectiveness literature on alcohol taxes and multifaceted community-based interventions, at countering excessive alcohol consumption in our communities.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.

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