Background -

Respondent's name:	Guy Weber
Respondent's country:	Luxembourg
Respondent's e-mail address:	guy.weber@ms.etat.lu
Respondent's telephone number:	00 352 478 55 71
Respondent's fax number:	00 352 46 75 26
Respondent's present work:	Other
Organisation, position, address (name and number of street, postal code, town):	Direction de la Santé Villa Louvigny Allée Marconi L-2120 Luxembourg
Organisation website:
Are you a government employee?	Yes
Professional qualifications:	Public Health Sciences
Number of years in employment in your professional area:	14
Self-rating of expertise level in the area of alcohol control policy in your country (1 is slightly conversant, 10 is fully conversant): 1
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.
Provide organisational reference(s) for nation-wide and/or regional coalitions (task forces, action groups, collaborative bodies) in the arena of alcohol control policy.
Other background information:	No data entered

Politics, policies and priorities -

Do relevant politicians/policy makers refer to alcohol control policy in a manner that suggests it is a priority area?

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?

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)

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)

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 data entered

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):
Budget year:

National level, governmental policy documents on alcohol policy and on preventing the harm done by alcohol been published in the following areas:

Regional level, governmental policy documents on alcohol policy and on preventing the harm done by alcohol have been published in the following areas:

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:

Name up to five of the most senior government officials with responsibility to oversee/manage alcohol control policy and the prevention of the harm done by alcohol.

Evaluation -

Are national alcohol control policy and programmes to prevent the harm done by alcohol policies evaluated and reported?

Monitoring and/or surveillance -

Are national alcohol policy monitoring and/or surveillance activities published?

Knowledge development -

Provide organisational reference(s) for the principal bodies (e.g. academic bodies, public health laboratories, agencies, government units) that are involved in developing the knowledge base for alcohol control and prevention policies.

Implementation -

Provide organisational references for the principal bodies (main providers) that are involved in implementing intervention programmes and other actions for alcohol control policy.

Information dissemination -

Provide organisational references for the principal bodies that are involved in information dissemination and other actions to keep health care professionals informed about managing hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption and alcohol dependence.

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
Comprehensive community based
Home/family
School
College
University
Work place
Primary health care
Hospital/clinic
Internet
Social welfare and youth services
Custodial settings (prisons, probation, etc.)
Other:

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?

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?

The arena/activities are indicated for which earmarked funds are provided:

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)?

The arena/activities are indicated for which earmarked funds are provided:

Personal evaluation of the state of the field -

List up to five key recent advances in your country related to alcohol control policy:

List up to five key recent advances in your country related to the prevention of the harm done by alcohol:

List up to five key barriers/obstacles/issues that stand in the way of achieving, in your country, action on alcohol control policy:

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:

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:

List, in descending order of importance, up to five key changes that are needed in your country, to achieve the advances above:

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:

List, in descending order of importance, up to five key changes that are needed in your country, to achieve the advances above:

List up to ten persons who you believe are important for action on alcohol control policy and the prevention of the harm done by alcohol in your country.