Implementing brief alcohol intervention in primary and occupational health care. Reflections on
two Finnish projects
Engelsk titel: Implementing brief alcohol intervention in primary and occupational health care. Reflections on two
Finnish projects
Författare:
Seppä K
;
Kuokkanen M
Email: kaija-liisa.seppa@uta.fi
Språk: Eng
Antal referenser: 26
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 09023110
Sammanfattning
The article describes the implementing of brief alcohol interventions in primary and
occupational health care in Finland by studying the two most recent nationwide projects.
These projects build on earlier national and international research results and practical
knowledge and are tailored according to the Finnish political and medical culture. We report
how actively the municipalities joined with the nationwide implementation project in primary
health care and the quality of the primary and occupational health care projects based on
recently published quality instructions.
Our conclusion is that these two projects have shown that practitioners in health care centres
can be activated and thereby also make a widespread implementation of brief alcohol
intervention possible. The attitudes to brief alcohol intervention, especially among health care
leaders have changed for the positive, and education and training are now actively asked for
as well by primary as occupational health centres.