The international drug control structures, the UN drug control conventions and drug policy in Austria. On Friday 9th and Saturday 10th March 2012, the South East Europe Drug Policy Network (SEE Network) held its annual meeting in Vienna, Austria. The programme of the meeting focused on the...

Despite the fact that 30 percent of opioid overdoses also involve a benzodiazepine, there is little policy guidance on how to curb concurrent misuse and even less evidence on how changes to co-prescribing practices can affect patients' economic trajectories. In 2012, Austria restricted access to...

This profile identifies strengths, challenges and specific areas of action on cancer prevention and care in Austria as part of the European Cancer Inequalities Registry, a flagship initiative of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan. It provides a short synthesis of: the national cancer burden; risk...

Der vorliegende Band beschäftigt sich mit folgenden thematischen Schwerpunkten: zum einen geht es um die Entwicklung der Zahl der Invaliditätspensionen in Österreich sowie um die wirtschaftlichen Kosten von Invalidisierung; zum anderen geht es um Wege der aktiven Gegensteuerung gegen...