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. 2020 Aug 26;50(5):1197–1202. doi: 10.3906/sag-2002-237

Table 2.

Alcohol policy and interventions.

Leadership, awareness, and commitment
· Written national policies
· Nationwide awareness-raising activities
Regulating the availability of alcohol
· National control of production and sale of alcohol
· Restrictions on on-premise and off-premise sales of alcoholic beverages
· National minimum age for purchase
· Restrictions on drinking in public.
Health services’ responses
Community action
Pricing policies
Drink-driving countermeasures
· Blood alcohol concentration limits
· Drink-driving prevention measures
· Drink-driving penalties
Marketing restrictions
· Restrictions on alcohol advertising
· Regulations on alcohol product placement
· Regulation of alcohol sales promotions
· Methods of detecting infringements of marketing restrictions
Monitoring and surveillance
· National surveys on alcohol consumption
· Legal definition of alcoholic beverages
· National monitoring systems
Addressing informal and illicit production
· Inclusion of informal or illicit production in national alcohol policies
· Methods used to track informal or illicit alcohol
Reducing the negative consequences of drinking
· Responsible beverage service (RBS) training
· Labels on alcohol containers