Caribbean Adolescents: Misuse and Abuse of Alcohol

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Cecilia Hegamin-Younger (Editor)
Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, St. George’s University, Grenada, West Indes

Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc, (Editor)
Division of Adolescent Medicine, KY Children’s Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel
Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Centers, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel
School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Series: Public Health: Practices, Methods and Policies
BISAC: MED078000

When an economy is fueled by the alcohol industry, which is a powerful and a resource-intense industry, governments who lack technical capacity and financial resources to combat the alcohol industry may fear the economic impact of restrictive alcohol polices. How can a country address the public health concerns from alcohol misuse and abuse? Because alcohol is no ordinary commodity, the public has a right to understand and expect a more enlightened approach to the development and implementation of an alcohol policy.

An enlightened approach of using evidence to inform policies, include key members of the community and target the general population, at high-risk drinkers and at people already experiencing alcohol-related problems. Alcohol is a drug and a currency, making it a unique commodity. In this book, the authors present research on alcohol and advertisement, alcohol related traffic accidents, suicidal behavior and many more aspects of alcohol use and misuse in the Caribbean area.
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Economy and Alcohol
Cecilia Hegamin-Younger and Joav Merrick (Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, St George’s University School of Medicine, St George’s, Grenada, West Indies, and others)

Chapter 2. Social and Cultural Aspects of Alcohol use in the Caribbean
Elizabeth Japal and Oliver Benoit (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, St George’s University, Grenada, West Indies, and others)

Section One: Public Health Aspects

Chapter 3. Alcohol Advertisements and Adolescents
Marye Margaret Boggs and Praveen Durgampudi (Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, St George’s University School of Medicine, St George’s, Grenada, West Indies)

Chapter 4. Alcohol Related Road Traffic Accidents
Tara Francis, Brian Fremaux, Nequella George, Lydia Atkins, and Ezinwanneamaka M Ejiofor (Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, St George’s University School of Medicine, St George’s, Grenada, West Indies, and others)

Chapter 5. Alcohol Use, Social and Cultural Determinants in Grenadian Adolescents
Alisha Francis, Cecilia Hegamin-Younger and Christine Richards (Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, St George’s University School of Medicine, St. George’s, Grenada, West Indies, and others)

Chapter 6. Psychological Maltreatment during Childhood and Later Alcohol Misuse
Samantha Longman-Mills and Carole Mitchell (Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica)

Chapter 7. Suicidal Behaviour, Adolescents and Alcohol
Toni Heron, Roger Gibson, Patrice Whitehorne-Smith, and Wendel Abel (Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica)

Chapter 8. Parents, Alcohol and Adolescents
Eulalee MA Thompson, Wendel D Abel, Patrice Whitehorn-Smith, Uki Atkinson, Roger Gibson, and Pernell Clark (Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, The University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, and others)

Chapter 9. Babash and Unregulated Rum in Grenada
Cecilia Hegamin-Younger, Alexander Plochocki, Nakul Chopra, Praveen Durgampudi, Faisal Husain, and Adbul Seckam (Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, St George’s University School of Medicine, St George’s, Grenada, West Indies, and others)

Chapter 10. Underage Drinking
Nikita Cudjoe, Emmanual Keku, Cecilia Hegamin-Younger, and Shelly Rodrigo (Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, St George’s University, St George, Grenada, West Indies, and others)

Chapter 11. How Many Drinks Today?
Cecilia Hegamin-Younger, Rohan Jeremiah, Marye Boggs, Michelle Corpuz, Danielle Torres, Anne Mbari, Antonia Stanislaus, Birtukan Ejigu, and Tessa St Cyr (Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, St George’s University School of Medicine, St George’s, Grenada, West Indies, and others)

Chapter 12. Alcohol and Aviation
Satesh Bidaisee and Darren Dookeeram (St George’s University and Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation, Grenada, and others)

Chapter 13. Health, Behavior and Grenadian Adolescents
Kim Oelhafen, Brian Shayota and Cecilia Hegamin-Younger (Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, St George’s University School of Medicine, St George’s, Grenada, West Indies)

Chapter 14. Drug Consumption in Suriname
Josephine Gathura and Sherif Abdoelrahmen (Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, St George’s University School of Medicine, St George’s, Grenada, West Indies, and others)

Section Two: Acknowledgments

Chapter 15. About the Editors

Chapter 16. About the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, St George’s University, Grenada, West Indies

Chapter 17. About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel

Chapter 18. About the Book Series “Public Health: Practices, Methods and Policies”

Section Three: Index

Index

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