RARHA
Joint Action on Reducing
Alcohol Related Harm
Manuel Cardoso
Executive Coordinator RARHA
What?
 RARHA is a Member States initiative that exists from the joint work
between European Commission and the Committee on National
Alcohol Policy and Action (CNAPA).
Structure:
 3 Horizontal Work Packages – Coordination,
Dissemination
Evaluation
 3 Core Work Packages – Monitoring,
Guidelines
Tool-Kit;
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RARHA THROUGH….. TIME
 Start - 1 January 2014
 End - 31 December 2016
 Overall budget of the joint action:
47 % European Commission
53 % Members States
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Associated partners 32
Collaborating partners 28
EU MS + Iceland + Norway + Switzerland
EUROCARE and EurohealthNet
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STRUCTURE
COORDINATOR
PORTUGAL
CORE
WORK PACKAGES
WP 4
MONITORING
WP 5
GUIDELINES
LEADER
POLAND+GERMANY
LEADER
FINLAND + ITALY
ASSOCIATED
PARTNERS
32
WP 6
GOOD PRACTICE
TOOL KIT
LEADER
SLOVENIA+ GERMANY
HORIZONTAL
WORK PACKAGES
COLLABORATING
PARTNERS
28
WP 1
COORDINATION
WP 2
DISSEMINATION
WP 3
EVALUATION
LEADER
PORTUGAL
LEADER
PORTUGAL
FINLAND
LEADER
ITALY
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RARHA MAP
Associated Partners
Collaborating Partners
Future Partner ?
Czech Rep
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TARGET GROUPS
European Policy Makers
Health Professionals Primary Health Care
Sub Target Groups
Governmental and non-governmental public health professionals
and researchers whose work would benefit from additional
knowledge. Also specialized media responsible for dissemination.
Citizens
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WP4 Monitoring
Comparable Data
Main Goals
 Providing a baseline for comparative assessment and
monitoring of alcohol epidemiology, including
drinking levels and patterns and alcohol related
harms across the EU.
 Strengthening capacity in comparative alcohol
survey methodology and increasing interest in using
common methodology in the future.
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How?
WP4 Monitoring
TASK 1
 The use of the SMART instrument as a blueprint for a survey to
collect comparable data on alcohol consumption, drinking
patterns and alcohol related harm across EU Member States.
TASK 2
 Pooling existing data on alcohol consumption, drinking
patterns and related harms from surveys carried out in
Member States between 2008 and 2012 and recoding the data
into variables comparable to those measured in the SMART
questionnaire.
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WP5 Guidelines
Concept Harmonization
Main Goals
 Guidelines for limiting drinking in order to reduce risks of
harm from alcohol are given in most EU countries.
 Lot of variation in the scope of guidelines, levels of drinking
defined as low/high risk, and definitions of ”standard drink”.
 May confuse consumers when information is accessible
across borders on the internet, on product labels...
 May reduce the potential for effect of risk communication to
reduce alcohol related harm.
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What do we hope to achieve?
WP5 Guidelines
In the short term:
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Increase understanding among public health policy makers of the scientific
basis and practical implications of the use of low risk drinking guidelines as
a public health measure.
In the medium term:
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Contribute towards more aligned messages to the general population,
subgroups and health professionals about alcohol consumption levels and
ways to reduce risk of harm.
In the long term:
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Informing people on factors that influence their health and empowering
towards healthy lifestyles reduces alcohol related harm and the risk of
chronic diseases / NCDs.
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WP6 – Good Practice Tool Kit
Sharing Good Pratices
Main Goals
Putting together a Tool Kit comprising
 transferable interventions on which evidence of
effectiveness in influencing alcohol attitudes or behaviors
is available
 guidance relating to criteria for a different approach in
interventions/ practices to be recognized as a good practice
and the use of information approaches as part of wider
public health policies on alcohol
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WP6 – Good Practice Tool Kit
The Tool Kit will include three group interventions:
 Early intervention services (including brief advices);
 School-based programs (information and education);
 Public awareness programmes (including new media, social
networks and online tools for behaviour change).
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Communication
WP2 Dissemination – Goals
“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them
across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.”
Lee Iacocca
REDUCING ALCOHOL RELATED HARM
Dissemination Priorities:
- Define actual and efficient communication digital formats;
- Built stronger communication channels;
- Know each other better.
Request:
- Go to our platforms and make them interactive instruments for
the RARHA Joint Action team.
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WP Chat
Diary
Restricted Members Area
September 2014
www.rarha.eu
W2 – WEBSITE - LAUNCH
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W2 – NEWSLETTER - LAUNCH
www.rarha.eu
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W2 – PRESS
National
Press
International
Press
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Looking for your participation!
www.rarha.eu
Manuel Cardoso
[email protected]