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European Alcohol Policy: France
Background -
| Respondent's name: |
Craplet, Michel |
| Respondent's country: |
France |
| Respondent's e-mail address: |
mcraplet@anpa.asso.fr |
| Respondent's telephone number: |
33 1 42 33 51 04 |
| Respondent's fax number: |
33 1 45 08 17 02 |
| Respondent's present work: |
Other |
| Organisation, position, address (name and number of street, postal code, town): |
20 rue Saint Fiacre 75002 Paris |
| Organisation website: |
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| Are you a government employee? |
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| Professional qualifications: |
No data entered |
| Number of years in employment in your professional area: |
No data entered |
| Self-rating of expertise level in the area of alcohol control policy in your country (1 is slightly conversant, 10 is fully conversant): 3 |
| 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): 3 |
| If you are answering for a jurisdictional region rather than as a country as a whole, which jurisdictional region is it? |
No data entered |
If this questionnaire was completed with the collaboration
of other people, provide organisational reference(s) for each participant.
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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.
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| Other background information: |
Population size of the region: 60 000 000 |
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? |
Yes, not documented |
| 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) |
1 |
| 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) |
3 |
| 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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No data entered |
| Budget year: |
No data entered |
| National level, governmental policy documents on alcohol policy and on preventing the harm done by alcohol been published in the following areas:
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Education and public awareness.
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| 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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Home/family
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School
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College
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University
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1 |
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Work place
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4 |
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Primary health care
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4 |
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Hospital/clinic
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2 |
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Internet
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3 |
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Social welfare and youth services
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No data entered |
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Custodial settings (prisons, probation, etc.)
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2 |
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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? |
Yes |
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The arena/activities are indicated for which earmarked funds are provided:
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Governmental Centre(s) and/or institutes
Non-governmental Centres (s) and/or institutes
Research
School, college, university-based educational programmes
Public education programmes
Health care based programmes
Health professional education
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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)? |
Yes |
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The arena/activities are indicated for which earmarked funds are provided:
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Non-governmental Centres (s) and/or institutes
Research
Community prevention programmes
School, college, university-based educational programmes
Public education programmes
Health care based programmes
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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: |
- European court of Justice's decision about Loi Evin
- New taxation of alcopops in 2004
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| List up to five key recent
advances in your country related to the prevention of the harm done by alcohol: |
- Drinking and driving
Penalties are higher since vote of two laws in 2003
- Enforcement by the police force is better
- New measures for young drivers : a temporary driving licence is given for 3 years since the 1st of March 2004
- The legal BAC is now 0.2 for drivers of public transports on the roads
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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: |
- Decreasing of French wines selling in France and across the world
- obbies defending wines, cooking and tourist trades joining together and supported by an important specialized press
- deology of “addictologie”. This comprehensive approach conforted the idea that « alcohol is a drug » but in this global perspective, the product alcool, the alcohol policy and alcohol education are forgotten behind illegal drugs problems.
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| 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: |
- Drink industry promoting unefficient prevention programs
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| 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: |
- Study on effectivness in French settings
- Forbiding alcohol selling in petrol station (it is still allowed during « day time » ie from 6 am to 10 pm)
- Control of selling alcohol to young people
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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: |
- Funding of alcohol research studying French drinking patterns
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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: |
- Development of charity funding
- Involvment of consumers’ associations
- Education and treatment programs adressing alcohol abuse and not only binge drinking and addiction
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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: |
- Promotion of prevention through culture
- Education on how to receive, gather and have fun without offering alcohol
- Education in schools with long term programs
- Training of waiters, teachers, media ; for example on the French paradox
- Long terms funding of specialized agency |
Comments
| Dear Peter, I need and maybe others a special training on how answering with these new computer tools. We should think about it through Eurocare programs.
Here are the references that I did not succeed putting at the right place :
For 2.6 Revue Toxibase n° 16 2004, Avec l'alcool où en sommes nous ?
Tendances (OFDT) n° 38 (juillet 2004) à 42 (mars 2005)
For 2.7 Focus (IREB) n° 7, 2004 et n°8, 2005.
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Inclusive dates of data entry
| From: 1-4-2004 To: 1-1-2005 |
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