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Sunday 21 December 2014

Alcohol research – Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland´s Alcohol Strategy (MESAS)


 

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Background: Scotland’s Alcohol Strategy


In a bid to reduce alcohol related harm and improve the health and well-being of the Scottish population, the Scottish Government is taking forward Scotland’s alcohol strategy. Scotland’s alcohol strategy is a whole population approach incorporating both legislative and policy measures to shift changes in alcohol related behaviours. The strategy comprises the Framework for Action, Licensing (Scotland) Act (2005), Alcohol etc (Scotland) Act (2010) and most recently the Alcohol Minimum Pricing (Scotland) Act 2012 (still to be implemented). Further information on alcohol related policy is Scotland is available on the NHS Health Scotland Alcohol webpages.

Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland’s Alcohol Strategy (MESAS) 

The Scottish Government has tasked NHS Health Scotland with the responsibility of evaluating Scotland’s alcohol strategy (including Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP), if implemented) through the Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland’s Alcohol Strategy (MESAS) programme of work.  The key evaluation questions outlined for the whole MESAS programme of work are:
  • How and to what extent has implementing the package of measures (taken together and/or individually) contained in the Scottish alcohol strategy contributed to reducing alcohol-related harms?
  • Are some (people and businesses) affected (positively and negatively) more than others?
  • How might the strategy be implemented differently to improve effectiveness?
A ‘Theory of Change’ approach has been adopted to address the evaluation questions presented above. The Theory of Change assumes that alcohol related harms will reduce if alcohol consumption goes down. Further information on the Theory of Change and the evaluation plan is available in the first annual MESAS (baseline) report.

The evaluation comprises of a portfolio of seven studies. The studies started at the beginning of 2010 and will run through to 2015, with the monitoring of routine data continuing beyond. Further information on the study portfolio can be found in the MESAS Briefing Paper (December 2009). Additionally the evaluation of the impact of MUP, if implemented, will be developed and interpreted within the framework of the MESAS programme of work. The evaluation plan for MUP is currently being devised.”

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