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Policy options paper: Preventing alcohol‐related family and domestic violence

Policy options paper: Preventing alcohol‐related family and domestic violence

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Public health approach to preventing alcohol‐related family and domestic violence

Policy options paper: Preventing alcohol‐related family and domestic violence

3 Preventing the emergence of predisposing social and environmental conditions that lead to harm

Primordial prevention

Creating a safer environment

• Reduce health and social inequalities
• Reduce gender inequalities

Policy options paper: Preventing alcohol‐related family and domestic violence

4 Reducing the average risk of harm among the whole population

Primary prevention

Improving outcomes across the community

• Conduct public education campaigns on alcohol‐

related family and domestic violence and ways to prevent these harms

• Reduce the physical availability of alcohol
• Reduce the economic availability of alcohol
• Regulate the promotion of alcohol

Policy options paper: Preventing alcohol‐related family and domestic violence

5 Early detection and intervention among people at greater risk of harm

Secondary prevention

Focusing on people at greater risk

• Identify children and young people at risk of child

maltreatment

• Implement and fund family centred programs for

people affected by alcohol and substance misuse

• Reduce the prevalence of alcohol‐related family and

domestic violence among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

• Undertake opportunistic screening with people at

greatest risk of harm

Policy options paper: Preventing alcohol‐related family and domestic violence

6 Preventing the recurrence of harm

• Develop of a comprehensive Model of Care for

alcohol‐related family and domestic violence

• Provide adequate and ongoing funding to alcohol

and other drug services and family and domestic violence services

• Increase coordination between alcohol and other

drug services and child protection services

• Implement programs targeted at perpetrators

Tertiary prevention

Protecting people from further harm

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Moving towards a final policy paper for preventing alcohol‐related family and domestic violence

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MR MICHAEL THORN

Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education @MichaelTThorn