Russia's National Concept to Reduce Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol-Dependence in the Population 2010-2020: Which Policy Targets Have Been Achieved?

In the 2000s, Russia was globally one of the top 5 countries with the highest levels of alcohol per capita consumption and prevailing risky patterns of drinking, i.e., high intake per occasion, high proportion of people drinking to intoxication, and high frequency of situations where alcohol is cons...

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Published in:International journal of environmental research and public health 2020-11, Vol.17 (21), p.8270
Main Authors: Neufeld, Maria, Bunova, Anna, Gornyi, Boris, Ferreira-Borges, Carina, Gerber, Anna, Khaltourina, Daria, Yurasova, Elena, Rehm, Jürgen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abuse
Alcohol abuse
Alcohol Drinking - epidemiology
Alcohol use
Alcoholism
Alcoholism - epidemiology
Alcoholism - prevention & control
Alcohols
Dependence
Distilleries
Drinking
Drinking behavior
Drug abuse
Evaluation
Humans
Intoxication
Life expectancy
Mortality
Policy
Population
Risk analysis
Risk Factors
Russia - epidemiology
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Summary:In the 2000s, Russia was globally one of the top 5 countries with the highest levels of alcohol per capita consumption and prevailing risky patterns of drinking, i.e., high intake per occasion, high proportion of people drinking to intoxication, and high frequency of situations where alcohol is consumed and tolerated. In 2009, in response to these challenges, the Russian government formed the Federal Service for Alcohol Market Regulation and published a national strategy concept to reduce alcohol abuse and alcohol-dependence at the population level for the period 2010-2020. The objectives of the present contribution are to analyze the evidence base of the core components of the concept and to provide a comprehensive evaluation framework of measures implemented (process evaluation) and the achievement of the formulated targets (effect evaluation). Most of the concept's measures were found to be evidence-based and aligned with eight out of 10 areas of the World Health Organization (WHO) policy portfolio. Out of the 14 tasks, 7 were rated as achieved, and 7 as partly achieved. Ten years after the concept's adoption, alcohol consumption seems to have declined by about a third and alcohol is conceptualized as a broad risk factor for the population's health in Russia.
ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph17218270