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WWS Aberdeenshire multi-layered preventative partnership Case study Alcohol Initial deliberations

A diagram representing some initial discussions around wrestling with the evidence and thinking in the Discussion Paper. At the top of the graphic is a box containing two quotes. The first is from the UK Chief Medical Officer (2016): That drinking alcohol increases the risk of developing a range of cancers. The Committee on Carcinogenicity recently concluded that ‘drinking alcohol increased the risk of getting cancers of the mouth and throat, voice box, gullet, large bowel, liver, of breast cancer in women and probably also cancer of the pancreas’. These risks start from any level of regular drinking and then rise with the amounts of alcohol being drunk. The second is from the LOIP Priority Alcohol Discussion Paper: This is a ‘challenging’ brief because alcohol is an extraordinary anomaly in that it is remarkably harmful but yet lightly regulated. Below this is the text: Group discussion explored initial thoughts on the LOIP Discussion Paper (See section 2 in this case study). There are then three columns below this text. The first column is headed “The desire to focus on upstream partnership-working and ‘whole population approaches”. Below this are three boxes. The first contains the text: Putting upstream into action is going to be challenging – need to convince partners and communities. The box below this contains the text: working on early interventions and how to define them will need further thought. The third and final box below this contains the text: ‘Prevention Paradox’: shifting the whole population, given the greatest ‘quantity’ of harm being across ‘moderate’ drinkers, rather than chronic drinkers. The second column is headed “Connecting with people and challenging the messages of our existing ‘pro-alcohol’ culture”. Below this are three boxes. The first contains the text: ‘the alcohol industry’ (retailers), are well-resourced and actively promote their own ‘pro-alcohol’ messages and products. The box below this contains the text: the third and community sectors offer diverse and numerous opportunities to make and deepen connections with people, service-users and communities. The third and final box below this contains the text: developing multiply-targeted messages, e.g. aimed at potential victims and potential offenders; involving young people, hard-to-reach groups and ‘the public’ in designing. The third and final column is headed “Seeking to learn from and extend local data, evidence and dialogue”. Below this are three boxes. The first contains the text: the role of local intelligence (from communities, community sector) in generating evidence on levels of alcohol-use, keeping young people safe and related issues for Licensing Boards. The box below this contains the text: the LOIP, Locality Planning, Local CPP Plans and community action plans (CAPs): each creates opportunities for stronger local data and dialogue. The third and final box below this contains the text: Alcohol Brief Interventions (ABI): there is huge variation in uptake across Aberdeenshire; these interventions may exacerbate inequalities unintentionally; crucial to learn more.

Social Sciences Communications January 31, 2018
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