Research by Petticrew and others (2017) shows that Community Alcohol Partnerships (CAPs), that involve partnerships between the alcohol industry and local government, do not provide convincing evidence that CAPs are effective in reducing alcohol harms or anti-social behaviour.
On basis of the evidence on the effectiveness of self-regulation, EPHA concluded that there is no justification for endorsing self-regulation as policy mechanism to deliver public health objectives. As follow-up to the event “Self-regulation: a false promise for public health?”, held on 18 October 2016 in the European Parliament, EPHA (European Public Health Alliance) published … Read More →