There has been a vast increase in information available to the public through advancing medical research and the growth of the World Wide Web. There has also been a growing sense of professionalism evident among practitioners within the HIM field. Is a convergence of these two trends likely to lead to the reconceptualization of the work roles of at least some HIM professionals, so that they bec...

BACKGROUND Russia is one of the very few industrialised countries in the world where life expectancy has been declining. Alcohol has been implicated as a major contributor to the rapid fluctuations observed in male life expectancy since 1985 that have been particularly marked among working-age men. One approach to reducing the alcohol problem in Russia is 'brief interventions' which seek to cha...