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Women and alcohol in Aotearoa/New Zealand | Te waipiro me ngā wāhine i Aotearoa : report Jenny Rankine with Amanda Gregory, Anna Tonks and Te Pora Thompson-Evans

By: Rankine, Jenny.
Contributor(s): Gregory, Amanda | Tonks, Anna | Thompson-Evans, Te Pora | Alcohol Healthwatch | Women's Health Action.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Auckland, N.Z. : Alcohol Healthwatch; Women's Health Action, 2013Description: electronic document (200 p.); PDF file: 1.58 MB.ISBN: 978-0-9941021-2-6 (electronic).Subject(s): ALCOHOL ABUSE | ALCOHOL AVAILABILITY | ALCOHOL USE | DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | HAUORA | HAURANGITANGA | HEALTH | INTERVENTION | INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE | MĀORI | PACIFIC PEOPLES | PASIFIKA | RISK FACTORS | TAITAMARIKI | TŪKINOTANGA | VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN | WOMEN | YOUNG WOMEN | NEW ZEALAND | WĀHINE | PREVENTION | TŪKINOTANGA Ā-WHĀNAU | SEXUAL VIOLENCEDDC classification: 362.292 WOM Online resources: Click here to access online | Policy briefing paper Summary: This project was funded by the Ministry of Health and commissioned in August 2011 by Alcohol Healthwatch and Women’s Health Action to explore five questions: 1. What are the patterns of drinking among women, have these changed over time and if so how? 2. What harms result for women from their own or others’ drinking? 3. Is the impact of alcohol on women’s health, either through their own drinking or that of others, a growing problem? 4. If so, what are the major influences on women’s drinking or the harm to women from others’ drinking? 5. What is currently working for preventing or reducing harm to women from their own or other people’s alcohol consumption? The project included a literature review of women’s alcohol consumption, influencing factors, alcohol problems for women and interventions. It also included focus groups and key informant interviews with 41 providers of services in organisations working with women affected by alcohol. It resulted in this report and a briefing paper (see second link).
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This project was funded by the Ministry of Health and commissioned in August 2011 by Alcohol Healthwatch and Women’s Health Action to explore five questions:
1. What are the patterns of drinking among women, have these changed over time and if so how?
2. What harms result for women from their own or others’ drinking?
3. Is the impact of alcohol on women’s health, either through their own drinking or that of others, a growing problem?
4. If so, what are the major influences on women’s drinking or the harm to women from others’ drinking?
5. What is currently working for preventing or reducing harm to women from their own or other people’s alcohol consumption?
The project included a literature review of women’s alcohol consumption, influencing factors, alcohol problems for women
and interventions. It also included focus groups and key informant interviews with 41 providers of services in organisations working with women affected by alcohol. It resulted in this report and a briefing paper (see second link).