EU news source, Portal, identifies ALICE RAP as one of the major pan-European initiatives tackling the problems of addiction, with a special focus on youth.

Geoff Wong, Ray Pawson and Lesley Owen

Legislation is one of the most powerful weapons for improving population health and is often used by policy and decision makers. Little research exists to guide them as to whether legislation is feasible and/or will succeed. This paper details work which aimed to produce a coherent and transferable evidence based framework of threats to legislative interventions to assist the decision making process and to test this through the 'case study' of legislation to ban smoking in cars carrying children.

Pawson R, Greenhalgh T, Harvey G, Walshe K.

This paper offers a model of research synthesis which is designed to work with complex social interventions or programmes, and which is based on the emerging 'realist' approach to evaluation. It provides an explanatory analysis aimed at discerning what works for whom, in what circumstances, in what respects and how.

Final Report of a consortium (2013)

Consortium leader: Sir Michael Marmot

This report provides an outline of new evidence on health inequalities in the European
Union (EU) and the policy response at EU and national level to health inequalities since
2009.

Dr Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General, addressed health promotion conference at the 8th Global Conference on Health Promotion in Helsinki, Finland on the 10th June 2013.