Health Behavioral Response

Health Behavioral Response
Health Behavioral Response
This report scrutinizes the given ideas and share newer insights that allows
synthesizing informations into a newer perspective. From the given paper it is
understood that alcohol misuse is a significant public-health issue that requires
emergent strategies.
A public-health perspective suggesting a 3-pronged approach can also be used
in effective alcohol-prevention programs. It involves a clear focus on the agent (i.e.
alcohol), the person and the environment with the interactions among these 3-concepts.
The prevention programs can be either Universal- focusing on the entire population
and/or Selective- focusing on particular groups (as college students) (Kelly-Weeder,
2011).
The selective approach is found to be highly effective as it focuses only on the
particular group and the interventions can be targeted equally. Under this, the school-
based interventions covering a large number of students can be targeted to prevent the
use of alcohol (agent), create awareness (in person) and inculcate societal values in
them. It is evidenced in the study conducted by Caria (2011) indicating a significant
reduction in alcohol-related problems through this approach. Additionally, the college-
based interventions that include raising the alcohol’s cost, limiting the density of alcohol
retailers as well as increasing the enforcement of legislation as zero-tolerance laws can
be employed. The individual interventions (brief-motivational techniques) are proved to
be highly-effective (Hingson, 2010).