Research
General
Alcohol Statistics Scotland 2011This biennial publication presents the latest available information from a range of national data sources relating to alcohol. The four main sections are: The Alcohol Market, Alcohol Consumption, Alcohol and Health Harm and Alcohol and Social Harm.
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Scottish Health Survey
Key findings from the Scottish Health Survey 2011.
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The Societal Cost of Alcohol Misuse in Scotland for 2007
Report by York Health Economics Consortium for the Scottish Government.
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Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland’s Alcohol Strategy. Setting the scene: Theory of change and baseline picture
NHS Health Scotland has been tasked by Scottish Government to lead the monitoring and evaluation of Scotland’s alcohol strategy.
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Model-based appraisal of alcohol minimum pricing and off-licensed trade discount bans in Scotland using the Sheffield alcohol policy model
This is the second update on the impact of minimum unit pricing, based on newly available data.
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Scottish Health Survey - The Glasgow effect
Topic report in the Scottish Health Survey series investigating the existence of "The Glasgow effect".
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Scottish Alcohol Needs Assessment
Report on the extent to which specialist alcohol treatment services in Scotland currently meet the level of need for treatment.
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The price of a drink
Levels of consumption and price paid per unit of alcohol by Edinburgh’s ill drinkers with a comparison to wider alcohol sales in Scotland. Published in Addiction journal.
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Alcohol problems in the criminal justice system: an opportunity for intervention
Report for WHO Europe describing an integrated model of care for alcohol problems in prisoners, with elements for best practice.
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A label for exclusion - Support for alcohol-misusing offenders
Policy paper from the Centre for Mental Health which shows that offenders who drink at harmful levels do not get enough support to turn their lives around.
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Alcohol and Food - Making the public health connections
Report by the Centre for Public Health at Liverpool John Moores University into obesity and alcohol use, two of the major threats to public health.
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European/global alcohol policy
Alcohol in Europe: A public health perspective
Report for the European Commission.
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Alcohol in the European Union - Consumption, harm and policy approaches
Report by World Health Organisation (Regional Office for Europe) presenting the latest literature overview of effective alcohol policies.
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Global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol
Strategy published by the World Health Organisation (WHO) which focuses on ten key areas of policy options and interventions at national level and four priority areas for global action.
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Alcohol, children and young people
Untold Damage: Childrens' accounts of living with harmful parental drinking
Report from Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) and ChildLine in Scotland examining the impact of harmful parental drinking on children.
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Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey (SALSUS) 2010
The most recent of a series of school surveys used to monitor and measure smoking, drinking and drug use among 13 and 15 year olds in Scotland.
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Scottish Youth Commission on Alcohol
Recommendations from the Scottish Youth Commission on Alcohol, published by Young Scot.
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Alcohol consumption and family life
This study for Joseph Rowntree Foundation examines how parents teach children (aged 5 to 12) about alcohol. It explores parental attitudes towards alcohol, and family drinking practices, using a national survey and in-depth case studies.
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A positive choice: young people who drink little or no alcohol
This study for Joseph Rowntree Foundation looks at what shapes the lives of young non-drinkers in the UK.
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Drinking to belong: understanding young adults' alcohol use within social networks
This report for Joseph Rowntree Foundation explores young adults' decision making around alcohol against a cultural backdrop of historically high levels of consumption, affordability and availability of alcohol in the UK.
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Young people, alcohol and influences
This report for Joseph Rowntree Foundation presents the findings from a major study of young people and their relationship with alcohol, and explores the wide range of influences on their drinking.
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Alcohol and marketing
The four steps to alcohol misuse
How the industry uses price, place, promotion and product design to persuade us that too much alcohol is not enough. Published by Alcohol Focus Scotland, SHAAP, Balance North East Alcohol Office, and Our Life.
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Under the influence - the damaging effect of alcohol marketing on young people
British Medical Association report which aims to identify effective ways of protecting young people from the influence of alcohol promotion and marketing, to redress the excessively pro-alcohol social norms to which they are exposed.
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New Media, new problem - alcohol, young people and the internet
Alcohol Concern report looking at the increasingly prominent role that the internet plays as a means of promoting alcohol use.
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Overexposed and overlooked
Alcohol Concern report on young people's views on the regulation of alcohol promotion.
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An unhealthy mix?
Alcohol Concern report into alcohol industry sponsorship of sport and cultural events.
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The seven key messages of the alcohol industry
Report published by the European Centre for Monitoring Alcohol Marketing (EUCAM) which offers an insight into the strategies used by the alcohol industry to influence global alcohol policy.
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How Big Alcohol abuses 'drink responsibly' to market its products
Report from the alcohol industry watchdog in the US, Alcohol Justice.
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