Norman Giesbrecht
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5408256 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Norman Giesbrecht |
| PRENOMES | Norman |
| SOBRENOME | Giesbrecht |
| ASSINATURA | GIESBRECHT N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Centre for Addiction and Mental Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4469-0563 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Closing the Gap Between Evidence and Action
Alcohol is a leading cause of death, disability, disease, trauma and social problems. In Canada, alcohol consumption is associated with 17,000 deaths annually, with costs from alcohol exceeding revenues in each jurisdiction. Leading health organisations point to policies shown to be effective in reducing alcohol harms. Yet there is a substantial and growing gap between evidence of effective policies to reduce alcohol harms and actual policies bei…
Alcohol lobbying in Canada
Although alcohol is a leading cause of health and social harms in Canada, policies directed at alleviating the public health burden created by alcohol are rarely adopted and often reversed. This study analyses alcohol-related policy lobbying activity to better understand how lobbying might impact policy development in Canada. This was deemed not human subjects research. A cross-sectional analysis was conducted using data from the federal Canadian…
Provincial and territorial results and recommendations from the Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation project
Prevention of alcohol-related suicide
Suicide remains a leading cause of death worldwide, with an estimated 700,000 suicide deaths per year. The World Health Organization identifies reducing alcohol use as one component of comprehensive approaches to suicide prevention. This paper conducted a rapid review of the evidence on alcohol-related suicide prevention interventions. PubMed, Embase and Web of Science were searched for articles related to alcohol, suicide, prevention, and polici…
The impacts of alcohol marketing and advertising, and the alcohol industry's views on marketing regulations
Public health efforts to prevent expansion of alcohol retail availability in neighbourhoods with factors associated with high rates of alcohol‐related harms
This commentary illustrates a recent case study within Ontario, Canada, in which the application of sociodemographic and health data was used by public health to support a legal case to oppose a retail licence application to consume liquor at a corner store located within a neighbourhood that has experienced low socio‐economic factors, including low income, high unemployment and low educational attainment levels. Communities in a similar situatio…
Building a community of practice to address alcohol harms in Canada
An assessment of federal alcohol policies in Canada and priority recommendations
Many evidence-informed alcohol policies have not been adopted, or been adopted only partially, by the Canadian federal government. Urgent adoption of the recommended policies is needed to prevent and reduce the enormous health, social, and economic costs of alcohol use in Canada
Response to letter by Alain Braillon
Why Canadians deserve to have mandated health and standard drink information labels on alcohol containers
To reduce deaths, morbidity, and social problems from alcohol in Canada, a multi-dimensional robust response is needed, including a comprehensive alcohol control strategy at the provincial, territorial, and federal levels. Alcohol container labels with health and standard drink information are an essential component of this strategy. This commentary provides a rationale for the mandatory labelling of all alcohol products, summarizes Canadian init…
Strategies for engaging policy stakeholders to translate research knowledge into practice more effectively
Exploiting motherhood
Even as women's roles have expanded substantially beyond traditional sex stereotypes, women are still commonly portrayed as uncomplaining caregivers, long‐suffering intimate partners and in control of family matters, all while maintaining a sexualised femininity. Nowhere are these stereotypes and expectations more apparent than for mothers. However, some social media are exploiting mothers by inappropriately offering alcohol consumption as a solu…
The Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation project
Alcohol retail privatisation in Canadian provinces between 2012 and 2017. Is decision making oriented to harm reduction
Computerized Clinical Decision Support System for Prompting Brief Alcohol Interventions with Treatment Seeking Smokers
Although brief alcohol intervention can reduce alcohol use for both men and women, health care providers (HCPs) are less likely to discuss alcohol use or deliver brief intervention to women compared to men. This secondary analysis examined whether previously reported outcomes from a cluster randomized trial of a clinical decision support system (CDSS)-prompting delivery of a brief alcohol intervention (an educational alcohol resource) for patient…
Alcohol Availability Across Neighborhoods in Ontario Following Alcohol Sales Deregulation, 2013–2017
Objectives. To examine the association between neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) and alcohol availability before and after deregulation in 2015 of the alcohol market in Ontario, Canada. Methods. We quantified alcohol access by number of alcohol outlets and hours of retail for all 19 964 neighborhoods in Ontario. We used mixed effects regression models to examine the associations between alcohol access and a validated SES index between 2013 …
Preventing alcohol-related cancer
A Comparison of Measures and Policies to Prevent Alcohol Problems among Youth across Canadian Provinces
The current report compares Canadian provinces across three policy/program dimensions demonstrated to reduce alcohol-related problems among 15–24-year-olds. The dimensions, Legal Drinking Age, Server and Manager Training/Challenge and Refusal Programs, and Drinking and Driving, were assessed using specified indicators with provincial scores reflecting the percentage of the ideal attained. National means for each dimension were also calculated. Le…
Acute Use of Alcohol and Methods of Suicide in a US National Sample
Objectives. We explored age, gender, and racial/ethnic differences with alcohol use and firearms, hanging or asphyxiation, and poisoning methods of suicide. Methods. We analyzed data for 37 993 suicide decedents aged 18 years and older from the 2005–2010 National Violent Death Reporting System database. Multinomial logistic regressions examined associations of method with alcohol use defined by blood alcohol content. Two-way interactions tested t…
Acute Alcohol Consumption as a Contributing Factor to Suicidal Behavior
AffiliationsMark S. Kaplan is with the School of Community Health, and Nathalie Huguet is with the Center for Public Health Studies, Portland State University, Portland, OR. Norman Giesbrecht is with the Social and Epidemiological Research Department, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario. Raul Caetano is with the University of Texas School of Public Health, Dallas Regional Campus, Dallas. Kenneth R. Conner is with the Departme…
Are Alcohol Prices and Taxes an Evidence-Based Approach to Reducing Alcohol-Related Harm and Promoting Public Health and Safety? A Literature Review
This literature review examines alcohol prices and taxes as potential prevention strategies—examining the links with high-risk drinking and drinking patterns and alcohol-related harm. A literature search of the studies on alcohol price and taxation was conducted using multiple electronic bibliographic databases. Examined outcomes were a) drinking patterns and high risk drinking; and b) harm from alcohol. Fifty-four relevant studies were evaluated…
Alcohol Retailing in Canadian and Nordic Contexts
This article involves a comparison of the Nordic alcohol-monopoly countries with Canadian provinces that have a tradition of off-premise alcohol retail monopolies. The aim of the article is to shed light on recent developments in Canadian and Nordic alcohol-retailing systems, and to propose a way forward for alcohol-control policy that involves balancing alcohol trade and damage-reduction agendas. The article first considers developments over the…
The Raising of Minimum Alcohol Prices in Saskatchewan, Canada
Objectives. We report impacts on alcohol consumption following new and increased minimum alcohol prices in Saskatchewan, Canada. Methods. We conducted autoregressive integrated moving average time series analyses of alcohol sales and price data from the Saskatchewan government alcohol monopoly for 26 periods before and 26 periods after the intervention. Results. A 10% increase in minimum prices significantly reduced consumption of beer by 10.06%,…
The Association of Drinking Pattern with Aggression Involving Alcohol and with Verbal versus Physical Aggression
In a general population survey of 1,019 Ontario adults, the present study examined the relationships of (a) drinking pattern (i.e., drinking frequency, heavy episodic drinking (HED), and hazardous drinking with alcohol involvement in aggression (i.e., no aggression, aggression without alcohol, and aggression involving alcohol); (b) drinking pattern with level of aggression (i.e., no aggression, verbal, and physical aggression); and (c) alcohol in…
Alcohol
Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity - Research and Public Policy Second Edition is a collaborative effort by an international group of addiction scientists to improve the linkages between addiction science and alcohol policy. It presents the accumulated scientific knowledge on alcohol research that has a direct relevance to the development of alcohol policy on local, national, and international levels. It provides an objective analytical basis on whic…
The Process of Recovery and Rebuilding among Abused Women in the Conservative Evangelical Subculture
A Study of the Alcohol Policy Development Process in the United States
The project identified factors influencing U.S. federal alcohol policy formation and especially the role of research. It explored the applicability of John Kingdon's “Policy Stream” model involving three interacting policy streams: problem recognition, policy alternatives, and politics. Each stream is necessary but insufficient for policy formation, and coupling streams in “windows of opportunity” is a key to moving legislation. Federal alcohol-p…
Acute Use of Alcohol and Methods of Suicide in a US National Sample
Objectives. We explored age, gender, and racial/ethnic differences with alcohol use and firearms, hanging or asphyxiation, and poisoning methods of suicide. Methods. We analyzed data for 37 993 suicide decedents aged 18 years and older from the 2005–2010 National Violent Death Reporting System database. Multinomial logistic regressions examined associations of method with alcohol use defined by blood alcohol content. Two-way interactions tested t…
The Raising of Minimum Alcohol Prices in Saskatchewan, Canada
Objectives. We report impacts on alcohol consumption following new and increased minimum alcohol prices in Saskatchewan, Canada. Methods. We conducted autoregressive integrated moving average time series analyses of alcohol sales and price data from the Saskatchewan government alcohol monopoly for 26 periods before and 26 periods after the intervention. Results. A 10% increase in minimum prices significantly reduced consumption of beer by 10.06%,…
The Alcohol Policy Development Process
We investigate the policymaking activities of members of the federal alcohol-policy community, including efforts to raise issues on the agenda, develop policy alternatives, and influence political decisions. Qualitative data (observations, attitudes, and activities in relation to alcohol policymaking dynamics) from 64 key-informant interviews inform this analysis of strategies and tactics. The paper draws on archival data, including interest-grou…
Alcohol Advertising Policies in the United States
This article describes policy developments in alcohol advertising and counter-advertising at the U.S. national level, including federally mandated warning labels on alcoholic beverage containers, the campaign for health warnings on broadcast advertising, the end of the voluntary ban on advertising of distilled spirits on television and radio, and the debate concerning a health-benefits label on wine products. Federal legislative documents and med…
An assessment of federal alcohol policies in Canada and priority recommendations
Many evidence-informed alcohol policies have not been adopted, or been adopted only partially, by the Canadian federal government. Urgent adoption of the recommended policies is needed to prevent and reduce the enormous health, social, and economic costs of alcohol use in Canada
Alcohol Policy Opinions in the United States over a 15-Year Period of Dynamic per Capita Consumption Changes
We examine 1989–2005 trends in United States (US) public opinion using 11 alcohol policy items (seven national telephone surveys) during a dynamic drop in per capita intake until the mid-1990s, followed by the first sustained upturn seen since 1980. In the 2000 U.S. National Alcohol Survey (NAS) survey 14 available policy items were factor analyzed, forming four factor-based scales replicated in 2005. Linear regression examined changing demograph…
The Role of Research in the Development of U.S. Federal Alcohol Control Policy
In the development of federal alcohol control policy, is research used merely to inform policymakers and the public, or to persuade them? Is it critical to the enactment of public policy, or is it an afterthought? To answer these questions, we analyzed in-depth interviews with federal alcohol policy community members, including those of the executive and legislative branches, interest group representatives, advocates, and media professionals. A s…
Alcohol-Related Policy Measures in Ontario
Drinking patterns and drinking-related benefits, harm and victimization experiences
This paper focuses on relationships between various measures of drinking and self-reported adverse and positive experiences related to drinking. It uses data collected in three Ontario communities in 1994 from a combined representative sample of 3,000 adults age 18 and over. The relationships between drinking patterns and consequences are examined by using the drinkers’ own causal attributions. We use different independent variables to calculate …
Why Canadians deserve to have mandated health and standard drink information labels on alcohol containers
To reduce deaths, morbidity, and social problems from alcohol in Canada, a multi-dimensional robust response is needed, including a comprehensive alcohol control strategy at the provincial, territorial, and federal levels. Alcohol container labels with health and standard drink information are an essential component of this strategy. This commentary provides a rationale for the mandatory labelling of all alcohol products, summarizes Canadian init…
Alcohol Availability Across Neighborhoods in Ontario Following Alcohol Sales Deregulation, 2013–2017
Objectives. To examine the association between neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) and alcohol availability before and after deregulation in 2015 of the alcohol market in Ontario, Canada. Methods. We quantified alcohol access by number of alcohol outlets and hours of retail for all 19 964 neighborhoods in Ontario. We used mixed effects regression models to examine the associations between alcohol access and a validated SES index between 2013 …
Changing the Price of Alcohol in the United States
Based on a study examining the development, modification, and blockage of U.S. federal alcohol policy during the 1980s and 1990s, this paper focuses on alcohol prices and taxes. Data consist of 64 in-depth interviews of experts on U.S. federal alcohol policy, supplemented by findings from archival government reports, trade journals, and the research literature. Prior research has shown an association between increases in price and decreases in pe…
Public Perception of Alcohol Policy Issues Relating Directly or Indirectly to Privatization
Building a community of practice to address alcohol harms in Canada
Acute Alcohol Consumption as a Contributing Factor to Suicidal Behavior
AffiliationsMark S. Kaplan is with the School of Community Health, and Nathalie Huguet is with the Center for Public Health Studies, Portland State University, Portland, OR. Norman Giesbrecht is with the Social and Epidemiological Research Department, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario. Raul Caetano is with the University of Texas School of Public Health, Dallas Regional Campus, Dallas. Kenneth R. Conner is with the Departme…
Gender Patterns of Psychosocial Development
Drinking patterns and drinking-related benefits, harm and victimization experiences
This paper focuses on relationships between various measures of drinking and self-reported adverse and positive experiences related to drinking. It uses data collected in three Ontario communities in 1994 from a combined representative sample of 3,000 adults age 18 and over. The relationships between drinking patterns and consequences are examined by using the drinkers’ own causal attributions. We use different independent variables to calculate …
Introduction of High-Alcohol Beer in Ontario
Gender Patterns of Psychosocial Development
Linking injury prevention and alcohol policy
A recent Canadian report on the economic costs of substance abuse (Single et al., 1996) indicated that among alcoholrelated health problems, the most costly is injuries, particularly falls. This finding might be counter-intuitive to the lay perception that liver disease and other chronic or longer-term complications of drinking result in the largest economic burden to society. In this collection we explore the nature of drinking-related injuries …
Effects of Others’ Drinking as Perceived by Community Members
The Impact of Credit and Debit Cards in Liquor Stores on Opinions and Consumption Patterns
Credit card users, debit card users, and other drinkers were compared in terms of demographic characteristics, opinions, financial problems, and alcohol consumption patterns before and after the introduction of credit and debit cards at government-operated liquor stores. Significant opinion shifts were detected, with more favorable opinions about credit cards reported after the regulatory change. Credit card and debit card users drank significant…
The Process of Recovery and Rebuilding among Abused Women in the Conservative Evangelical Subculture
Estimating Alcohol Consumption
There are several challenges to obtaining an accurate estimate of alcohol consumption and per capita consumption in a jurisdiction. There are difficulties in estimating the extent of illegal production and fraudulent transportation activities. In some jurisdictions there is extensive home production, which is difficult to estimate. There are challenges to estimating the amount of alcohol that is brought into a country or is taken out, primarily b…
Alcohol-Related Policy Measures in Ontario
Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity
From a public health perspective, alcohol is no ordinary consumer product. On a global level, it is a major contributor to disease, disability, and premature mortality. It also has an adverse impact on many aspects of social life. Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity – Research and Public Policy describes recent advances in alcohol research that have direct relevance for the development of effective alcohol policies at the local, national and internati…
Preventing Alcohol-Related Problems in the US Through Policy
Alcohol-Related Air Rage
Public Perception of Alcohol Policy Issues Relating Directly or Indirectly to Privatization
Public Opinion on Alcohol Policy
Public opinion on alcohol policy has received little research attention until recently, although a coherent research agenda in this area holds promise of a better understanding of the public health policymaking process. This paper reviews and critiques the major analyses of policy opinion in the United States, discusses national support for specific policy options, and addresses trends in policy opinion. The dynamics of policy opinion are complex…
The Role of Research in the Development of U.S. Federal Alcohol Control Policy
In the development of federal alcohol control policy, is research used merely to inform policymakers and the public, or to persuade them? Is it critical to the enactment of public policy, or is it an afterthought? To answer these questions, we analyzed in-depth interviews with federal alcohol policy community members, including those of the executive and legislative branches, interest group representatives, advocates, and media professionals. A s…
The Alcohol Policy Development Process
We investigate the policymaking activities of members of the federal alcohol-policy community, including efforts to raise issues on the agenda, develop policy alternatives, and influence political decisions. Qualitative data (observations, attitudes, and activities in relation to alcohol policymaking dynamics) from 64 key-informant interviews inform this analysis of strategies and tactics. The paper draws on archival data, including interest-grou…
Changing the Price of Alcohol in the United States
Based on a study examining the development, modification, and blockage of U.S. federal alcohol policy during the 1980s and 1990s, this paper focuses on alcohol prices and taxes. Data consist of 64 in-depth interviews of experts on U.S. federal alcohol policy, supplemented by findings from archival government reports, trade journals, and the research literature. Prior research has shown an association between increases in price and decreases in pe…
A Study of the Alcohol Policy Development Process in the United States
The project identified factors influencing U.S. federal alcohol policy formation and especially the role of research. It explored the applicability of John Kingdon's “Policy Stream” model involving three interacting policy streams: problem recognition, policy alternatives, and politics. Each stream is necessary but insufficient for policy formation, and coupling streams in “windows of opportunity” is a key to moving legislation. Federal alcohol-p…
Alcohol Advertising Policies in the United States
This article describes policy developments in alcohol advertising and counter-advertising at the U.S. national level, including federally mandated warning labels on alcoholic beverage containers, the campaign for health warnings on broadcast advertising, the end of the voluntary ban on advertising of distilled spirits on television and radio, and the debate concerning a health-benefits label on wine products. Federal legislative documents and med…
Alcohol Policy Opinions in the United States over a 15-Year Period of Dynamic per Capita Consumption Changes
We examine 1989–2005 trends in United States (US) public opinion using 11 alcohol policy items (seven national telephone surveys) during a dynamic drop in per capita intake until the mid-1990s, followed by the first sustained upturn seen since 1980. In the 2000 U.S. National Alcohol Survey (NAS) survey 14 available policy items were factor analyzed, forming four factor-based scales replicated in 2005. Linear regression examined changing demograph…
Cultural, sociofamilial, and psychological resources that inhibit psychological distress in African Americans exposed to stressful life events and race-related stress.
Empirical evidence suggests that African Americans (herein, all nonimmigrant persons of African heritage living in the United States) are at increased risk for exposure to stressful life events (e.g., Karlsen & Nazroo, 2002; McCord & Freeman, 1990; Thoits, 1991; Williams, Neighbors, & Jackson, 2003). Moreover, the health consequences associated with this increased risk are exacerbated by daily encounters with individual, institutional, and cultur…
Externalities from Alcohol Consumption in the 2005 US National Alcohol Survey
A subsample (n = 2,550) of the 2005 US National Alcohol Survey of adults was used to estimate prevalence and correlates of six externalities from alcohol abuse--family problems, assaults, accompanying intoxicated driver, vehicular accident, financial problems and vandalized property--all from another's drinking. On a lifetime basis, 60% reported externalities, with a lower 12-month rate (9%). Women reported more family/marital and financial impac…
Alcohol
Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity - Research and Public Policy Second Edition is a collaborative effort by an international group of addiction scientists to improve the linkages between addiction science and alcohol policy. It presents the accumulated scientific knowledge on alcohol research that has a direct relevance to the development of alcohol policy on local, national, and international levels. It provides an objective analytical basis on whic…
An Exploratory Approach to Analyzing Alcohol Control Policy Opinions Held by Ontario Adults
Telephone interview data from a representative sample of 1,216 Ontario adults were analyzed using latent class analysis to determine whether distinct and homogeneous classes of individuals could be identified based on their responding patterns to 11 alcohol policy items. Five latent classes were identified and labeled as: dedicated liberalizers, moderate liberalizers, moderate controllers, dedicated controllers, and an ambivalent class. Multinomi…
The Association of Drinking Pattern with Aggression Involving Alcohol and with Verbal versus Physical Aggression
In a general population survey of 1,019 Ontario adults, the present study examined the relationships of (a) drinking pattern (i.e., drinking frequency, heavy episodic drinking (HED), and hazardous drinking with alcohol involvement in aggression (i.e., no aggression, aggression without alcohol, and aggression involving alcohol); (b) drinking pattern with level of aggression (i.e., no aggression, verbal, and physical aggression); and (c) alcohol in…
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