Sharing Best Practice in Self-Regulation: International & Regional Workshops
London, UK (2004); Tokyo, Japan (2006); Cape Town, South Africa (2006); Santiago, Chile (2007)
Following a meeting organized in 2003 by the World Health Organization (WHO) with representatives of the beverage alcohol industry, ICAP has convened a series of workshops to exchange best practice on self-regulation of advertising and marketing of beverage alcohol. The London workshop, held in October 2004, afforded an opportunity to review industry best practice internationally with a wide range of stakeholders from the beverage alcohol industry, self-regulatory bodies, advertisers, governmental bodies and public health experts, including representatives from the European Commission and the WHO.
As self-regulation of beverage alcohol takes different forms in different markets around the world—appropriately reflecting the many ways in which alcohol is regulated, sold, and consumed in diverse cultures—ICAP has organized a series of regional workshops to improve understanding of self-regulation and answer the need for continual improvement in implementing self-regulatory systems internationally, regionally, and locally. Regional workshops were held in 2006 in the Asia-Pacific region (Tokyo, Japan) and the Africa region (Cape Town, South Africa). A Latin America regional workshop was held in November 2007 (Santiago, Chile).
The key issues arising from the workshops are summarized in the meeting reports. The reports also include overviews of self-regulation and illustrations of activities undertaken by the alcohol industry both internationally and regionally.
Alcohol Policy 2015: Identifying Future Trends
Public Health Workshop
London, UK
9 June 2005
As part of its ongoing consultations with the public health community, ICAP convened a workshop as part of its tenth anniversary events in June 2005 bringing together key international experts from a range of countries and backgrounds. The workshop, held at the Royal Society of Medicine in London, brought together participants from Europe, Africa, North and South America and the Asia-Pacific region, and from developed as well as developing countries.
The convened experts were asked to share their insights into the current state of alcohol policies in their respective countries and regions and to help identify new directions likely to emerge in the future. What emerged was a high degree of concurrence among meeting participants regarding the current status of alcohol issues. Topics they identified could be divided into three broad areas: drinking patterns and their relationship to harm, the need for targeted interventions and the merits of partnership in finding solutions.
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London Report
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Tokyo Report
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Cape Town Report
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Santiago Report
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Meeting Report
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ICAP Symposium on Young People's Drinking
Kobe, Japan
24 October 2004
ICAP sponsored a symposium entitled "Young People’s Drinking – An International Perspective." The symposium was part of the XVIII World Congress of the World Association for Social Psychiatry (WASP), held in Kobe, Japan, from October 24 to 27, 2004. By bringing together experts and practitioners from various regions and disciplines, the symposium aimed to contribute to the cross-cultural discussion of the nature and extent of young people’s drinking.
Click here for the symposium agenda with presentation, papers and abstracts.
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