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Global strategy to reduce harmful use of alcohol
In 2010, the sixty-third session of the World Health Assembly adopted by consensus the resolution which endorses the global strategy to reduce harmful use of alcohol. The global strategy lists the priority areas for the global action and the national action.
The four priority areas for global action
public health advocacy and partnership
technical support and capacity building
production and dissemination of knowledge
resource mobilization
The ten areas for national action
leadership, awareness and commitment
health services' response
community action
drink-driving policies and countermeasures
availability of alcohol
marketing of alcoholic beverages
pricing policies
reducing the negative consequences of drinking and alcohol intoxication
reducing the public health impact of illicit alcohol and informally produced alcohol
monitoring and surveillance
SAFER
In 2018, acknowledging the urgency to control and prevent the alcohol-related public health and development burden, WHO launched “SAFER”– an action package prioritizing five high impact WHO “best buys” and “good buys” out of the 10 policy areas outlined in the Global Strategy to Reduce Harmful Use of Alcohol. This is known as the SAFER action package.
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