Alcohol Control in Cuba: Preventing Countervailing Cultural and Mass Media Influences

• Published in: MEDICC review Vol. 18; no. 3; p. 29
• Main Author: González-Menéndez, Ricardo Á
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.07.2016
• Subjects: Alcohol Drinking - ethnology; Alcohol Drinking - psychology; Alcoholism - ethnology; Alcoholism - prevention & control; Attitude to Health; Cuba - epidemiology; Culture; Health Promotion - methods; Humans; Mass Media

Harmful use of alcohol-the prime gateway drug to other addictions-is also a problem in Cuba, even though the National Program for Prevention of Harmful Use of Alcohol includes the most effective measures used in analogous programs around the world. As a participant in the program's committee an...