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The Community and Public Health staff involved with alcohol, focus on the following health goal objective: 'To improve the health of the population by reducing alcohol related harm'.
Examples of this are:
- Investigating applications for On and Club Licences and preparing reports on behalf of the Medical Officer of Health.
- Supporting the Liquor Industry to achieve compliance through appropriate procedures and regular training and appraisal.
- Collaborating with other agencies to ensure regular monitoring of high risk licensed premises.
- Controlling the supply of alcohol by encouraging its responsible sale, use and promotion in licensed premises. Both regulatory and educative approaches are integral to this.
- Reducing the demand for alcohol by informing the public about the effects of alcohol use and mis-use and delivering health promotion programmes targeting at risk groups
- Minimising alcohol related harm in specific settings through promoting host responsibility and workplace programmes and delivering public programmes on alcohol use
- Reducing youth access to alcohol through supporting and or developing supply control and reduction initiatives
- Working collaboratively with other agencies both formally and informally to promote strategies and procedures to reduce the prevalence of alcohol related harm.
- Ensuring that key law and policy makers have appropriate information to consider when making decisions
Documents
Downloads – hard copies available from the Community Health Information Centre
Links
Alcohol Advisory Council (ALAC)
Had Enough
Alcohol Healthwatch
Host Responsibility Guidelines (CCC)
SADD
Alcohol Drug Association New Zealand
New Zealand Drug Foundation
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