@article{Wyper_G-2023_144300,
title = {COVID-19 and commerce complicate minimum unit pricing effects on health – Authors' reply},
author = {Wyper, G. and Mackay, D. and Fraser, C. and Lewsey, J. and Robinson, M. and Beeston, C. and Giles, L.},
month = {jul},
year = {2023},
abstract = {We thank Nin-Chieh Hsu and Chia-Hao Hsu for their Correspondence on our study that evidenced the health benefits of implementing an alcohol minimum unit pricing (MUP) in Scotland.They highlight that the COVID-19 pandemic increases the uncertainty of our study findings, a limitation we previously outlined. This is not a unique issue and is one facing any policy implemented before the COVID-19 pandemic that is being evaluated during the pandemic period. Due to the widespread pandemic shock, there is no perfect way to account for all pandemic-related uncertainty. To reflect this, we avoided being selective and adopted several pre-specified sensitivity analyses.This inclusive approach allowed for triangulation over how each analysis altered the measured health effect of the policy.},
pages = {368-369},
volume = {402},
issue = {10399},
journal = {The Lancet},
publisher = {Elsevier},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01251-5},
}
