Comparative monitoring of alcohol epidemiology across the EU:

This document will present results achieved by WP4 which was led by the Polish governmental agency PARPA (The State Agency for the Prevention of Alcohol-Related Problems) and co-led by the German IFT (Institute for Therapy Research). WP4 had two objectives: ● providing a baseline for comparative assessment and monitoring of alcohol epidemiology, including drinking levels and patterns and alcohol related harms across the EU ● strengthening capacity in comparative alcohol survey methodology and increasing interest in using common methodology in the future. Two tasks to achieve the objectives were adopted ● task 1 - a common alcohol survey methodology to be elaborated and implemented using as blueprint the survey instrument developed and tested for cross-cultural applicability in EU-funded project SMART ● task 2 - data from surveys carried out in the years 2008–2013 to be pooled and recoded for comparative assessment.