Policy Brief: Alcohol Taxation and Pricing Policies in the Region of the Americas
The need to reduce alcohol-related harms has been recognized by the 2010 World Health Organization (WHO) Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol (adopted by the Sixty-third World Health Assembly), the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the WHO Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases 2013-2020, and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Plan of Action to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol.
The amount and frequency of alcohol consumed by an individual are determined, in large part, by the affordability of alcoholic beverages.
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