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To conclude, we return to the beginning (Theoretical foundation and evolution of the Club movement).
These are the requirements which the theory of alcohol related problems should fulfil.

1. Clarify etiology of the problem.
2. Explain the possibility of early diagnosis, not only for the professionals, but also for the community health workers.
3. Describe the early therapeutic or treatment procedures.
4. Offer the treatment possibilities which can give acceptable results.
5. The theory should give the possibility to organise the territorial network of supporting points for the protection and the promotion of the health in the community and especially for the primary protection of the alcohol-related and complex problems.
6. The cost-benefit analysis of the proposed program should be acceptable.
7. The care ought to be easily accessible for all members of the community.
8. The theory should be included as a improvement of University teaching, postgraduate training and continuos education for all professional and primary health workers.

The degree to which our social-ecological approach is consistent with these requirements is open to discussion, but it seems to us that most of the requirements are satisfied.
The social-ecological approach is based on the work of clubs, autonomous multifamily communities with a maximum of 12 families. It addresses the persons and family as a system, not a sick person and his or her pathology. Alcohol related and complex problems are viewed as a lifestyle, a behaviour pattern provoked in many ways, we might say an anthropo-spiritually provoked behaviour. In the Clubs the “cure” for this are friendship, love and solidarity.

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