‘Why take chances?’ Advice on alcohol intake to pregnant and non-pregnant women in four Nordic countries
| Autor: | Anna Leppo, Dorte Hecksher, Kalle Tryggvesson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Pregnancy
Government 030505 public health business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Abstinence medicine.disease Non pregnant 3. Good health 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Harm Environmental health Medicine Health education Alcohol intake 030212 general & internal medicine 0305 other medical science business Alcohol consumption media_common |
| Zdroj: | Health, Risk & Society. 16:512-529 |
| ISSN: | 1469-8331 1369-8575 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13698575.2014.957659 |
| Popis: | In this article we explore the construction of risk in government guidelines on alcohol intake during and before pregnancy in four Nordic countries given that there is no sound evidence linking a low level of alcohol intake during pregnancy to foetal harm. In the article we draw on two sources of data to examine the rationale behind the advice given to pregnant women: health education materials and other government documents, such as guidelines for professionals. We found that in all the four countries the government guidelines advised pregnant women to completely abstain from alcohol consumption, but there was some variation between the countries in the advice for non-pregnant women. The guidance in the four countries also differed in the extent to which they discussed the lack of evidence behind the abstinence advice and the precautionary approach on which the advice was based. In all the four countries the printed and widely circulated health education materials did not explain that the abstinence advi... |
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