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Alcohol Action Ireland
Leading change: A society free from Alcohol Harm
Strategic Plan 2020-2024
The WHO Director-General is to “report to the Seventy-third World Health Assembly in 2020, through the Executive Board, on the implementation of WHO’s global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol during the first decade since its endorsement, and the way forward”.
To this end, the WHO Secretariat hosted a consultation from 24 October 2019 until 4 November 2019 on a discussion paper dated 21 October 2019. Member States, UN organizations and non-State actors were invited to submit their comments.
In this document you will find our submission.
Submission to the Department of Children and Youth Affairs Statement of Strategy, 2020-2022.
Pre Budget submission to the Department of Finance August 2018
Ireland Thinks poll, commissioned by Alcohol Health Alliance, conducted June 12th to June 16th 2017.
The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study is a cross-national research study conducted in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Europe and runs on a four-year cycle. In 2014, Ireland participated for the fifth time in the HBSC study (www.nuigalway.ie/hbsc). The study included 13,611 school-children from 3rd class in primary school to 5th year in post-primary school. Collectively, 230 primary and post-primary schools across Ireland participated in this study.
