Prevention of Alcoholism in the United States and the National Council on Alcoholism: 1944-1950
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of the Addictions
- Vol. 17 (4) , 679-702
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10826088209053011
Abstract
An historical viewpoint disclosed 2 potential impediments to effective primary prevention of alcoholism with a community-wide focus: weak evaluation instruments measuring the outcome of primary prevention programs and the difficulty of creating and maintaining a sufficiently high degree of interorganizational coordination. The origin of the [USA] National Council on Alcoholism during the 1940s was used as a focal point for the study. The importance, today as well as 4 decades ago, of designing prevention programs that are well conceived, implemented and evaluated is discussed.This publication has 29 references indexed in Scilit:
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