Handbook - Foreword

Subjects in this section:
About the HNT Handbook
Communication style

Working systematically in cooperation with relevant stakeholders is known to be effective in creating healthy nightlife settings. This Handbook contains guidelines, tips and advice to work in a systematic way on alcohol and drug prevention in nightlife settings. HNT is mainly an online instrument. However, for practical and communication reasons, HNT developed:

• Downloadable version of the Handbook
• HNT Handbook fact sheet 

Communication style

The tone of voice in this Handbook is quite direct and concise. There are several reasons for this:

• The Handbook is part of a website; online communication has to meet specific demands like short sentences and paragraphs, frequent use of lists (enumeration), titels and headlines.
• The Handbook is meant to be a practical tool for prevention professionals working in nightlife settings.
• The Healthy Nightlife Toolbox contains several databases with relevant literature and theories on prevention in nightlife settings; therefore the theory in the Handbook can be limited.
• The author of the Handbook is from Northern Europe. Northern Europeans tend to a communication style that - in general – is more direct than Southern European styles. We hope these cultural differences will do no harm to the implementation of the Handbook or the tools for evidence based prevention.