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European Alcohol Policy: Bulgaria
Background -
| Respondent's name: |
Alexieva Daniela |
| Respondent's country: |
Bulgaria |
| Respondent's e-mail address: |
daniela_alexieva@yahoo.com |
| Respondent's telephone number: |
00359 2 963 3280 |
| Respondent's fax number: |
00359 2 963 3280 |
| Respondent's present work: |
Manager/Administrator |
| Organisation, position, address (name and number of street, postal code, town): |
Horizonti 21 Foundation
President
JK "Bukston" Bl. 17 entr.2 apt. 21
Sofia 1618 |
| Organisation website: |
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| Are you a government employee? |
No |
| Professional qualifications: |
MD |
| Number of years in employment in your professional area: |
11 |
| Self-rating of expertise level in the area of alcohol control policy in your country (1 is slightly conversant, 10 is fully conversant): 10 |
| Self-rating of expertise level in the area of the prevention of the harm done by alcohol in your country (1 is slightly conversant, 10 is fully conversant): 10 |
| If you are answering for a jurisdictional region rather than as a country as a whole, which jurisdictional region is it? |
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If this questionnaire was completed with the collaboration
of other people, provide organisational reference(s) for each participant.
Organisational references:
 Bulgarian Institute for Addictions
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Provide organisational reference(s) for nation-wide and/or
regional coalitions (task forces, action groups, collaborative bodies) in
the arena of alcohol control policy.
Organisational references:
Bulgarian Institute for Addictions
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| Other background information: |
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Politics, policies and priorities -
| Do relevant politicians/policy makers refer to alcohol control policy in a manner that suggests it is a priority area? |
No |
| Do relevant politicians/policy makers refer to the prevention of the harm done by alcohol in a
manner that suggests it is a priority area? |
No |
| In your opinion, taking into account everything you know,
what level of real priority does the present government place on alcohol control policy? (1 is low priority, mostly rhetoric; 10 is high priority, much action) |
2 |
| In your opinion, taking into account everything you know,
what level of real priority does the present government place on the prevention of the harm done by alcohol? (1 is low priority, mostly rhetoric; 10 is high priority, much action) |
2 |
| What is the recent trend (past several years) in resource allocation to
alcohol control policy and programmes to prevent the harm done by alcohol? |
No or little change in resources |
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What was the amount of funds allocated to alcohol control policy and programmes to prevent the harm done by alcohol in the most recent national budget (Euro):
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| Budget year: |
No data entered |
| Regional level, governmental policy documents on alcohol policy and on preventing the harm done by alcohol have been published in the following areas: |
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| Non-governmental (private enterprise, research institute, NGO, etc.) policy
documents on alcohol control policy and programmes to prevent the harm done by alcohol have been published in the following areas: |
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Evaluation -
| Are national alcohol control policy and programmes to prevent the harm done by alcohol policies evaluated and reported? |
No |
Programmes -
| How available are programmes for preventing the harm done by alcohol? Provide document
reference(s) for some of the key programmes that exemplify high quality. (1 is not available; 5 is widely available) |
Public education through mass media
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Comprehensive community based
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1 |
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Home/family
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1 |
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School
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3 |
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College
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1 |
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University
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1 |
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Work place
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1 |
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Primary health care
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3 |
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Hospital/clinic
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2 |
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Internet
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1 |
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Social welfare and youth services
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2 |
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Custodial settings (prisons, probation, etc.)
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1 |
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Professional workforce -
Is higher education in alcohol control policy and/or the prevention of the harm done by alcohol available from at least one institution of higher
education?
No
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Funding -
| Are funds dedicated to alcohol control policy and programmes to prevent the harm done by alcohol clearly identifiable in the most recent national budget? |
Funds are available for alcohol, but mixed in with other funding and hard or impossible to link explicitly with alcohol. |
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The arena/activities are indicated for which earmarked funds are provided:
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| Are funds dedicated to alcohol control policy and/or programmes to prevent the harm done by alcohol clearly identifiable
in the budgets of non-governmental institutions (foundations, private institutes, welfare societies, professional groups, etc, associations)? |
No |
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The arena/activities are indicated for which earmarked funds are provided:
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Personal evaluation of the state of the field -
| List up to five key recent advances in your country
related to alcohol control policy: |
- Increase in alcohol taxes
- Law of Health:
1. Ban for the sale of alcohol to minors
2. Regulation for the alcohol marketing and advertising
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| List up to five key recent
advances in your country related to the prevention of the harm done by alcohol: |
- Drink-and-driving campaigns and proposition for changes in the Traffic Law with more severe penalties for drink and driving
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| List up to five key barriers/obstacles/issues
that stand in the way of achieving, in
your country, action on alcohol control policy: |
- Alcohol abuse is not viewed as a major public health problem
- Traditionally high consumption for alcohol - beer, wine and hard liquor and high level for culturally accepted "normative" drinking.
- Alcohol control policy is not a requirement for entering in European Union
- No political interest for development of alcohol control policy
- Strong alcohol production and importing companies. A serious level of "black" market for alcohol beverages |
| List up to five key barriers/obstacles/issues
that stand in the way of achieving, in
your country, action on the prevention of the harm done by alcohol: |
- High cultural permissiveness for drnking and high norms for a level of "normative" drinking
- Low level of training and involvement of GP in detection and treatment of early alcohol-related problems
- Long-term tradition for home-made production of wine and hard liquor
- Low level of implementation of the existing alcohol control policy on local level
- Serious level of existing illegal production and selling of alcohol beverages |
| List, in descending order of importance, up to
five key advances that are needed to support implementation of evidence-based alcohol control policy in your country: |
- Development and Adoption of National Alcohol Control Strategy by the Council of Ministers
- Sensitization of political decision makers for the alcohol-related problems and the harm done by alcohol and the need for the development of alcohol control policy in Bulgaria
- Formation of an Advocacy Coalition of governmental and non-governmental organizations and institutions for the development of alcohol control policy in Bulgaria
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| List, in descending order of importance, up to five key changes that are needed in
your country, to achieve the advances above: |
- Building of a small strong and active functioning Advocacy Group for the development of alcohol control policy and inclusion of important political decision makers in it
- sustained public and media interest in alcohol-related harm and problems as well as in development of alcohol control policy
- alcohol control policy issues become more prominent as part of the requirements for EU accession process
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| List, in descending order of importance, up to five key advances that are needed to
support implementation of evidence-based the prevention of the harm done by alcohol in your
country: |
- Regulation development and enforcement of stricter rules for alcohol beverages selling practices - No of outlets, hours of selling, etc.
- Stricter enforcement of the existing regulations on alcohol beverages selling - selling to minors, distances from schools, etc.
- Further increase in alcohol beverages taxes - related to alcohol beverages price increase
- Improved control on the illicit/smuggled alcohol beverages
- Change in the cultural drinking patterns - especially among the young people and adolescents |
| List, in descending order of importance, up to five key changes that are needed in
your country, to achieve the advances above: |
- The changes become a part of some mandatory condition for joining and functioning in EU
- Strong alcohol control regulations become adopted as a public health priority
- Development and implementation of contemporary studies on health, social and economic harm done by alcohol and the results are presented and disseminated to the political decision makers and the public
- Activities done for prevention of alcohol-related harm to become paid to the GPs by the National Insurance Fund (Kassa)
- Sustained public opinion sensitization on the harm done by alcohol issues |
Comments
Inclusive dates of data entry
| From: 8-6-2005 To: 14-11-2005 |
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