TY - JOUR
AU - Wyper, Grant M.A.
AU - Mackay, Daniel F.
AU - Fraser, Catriona
AU - Lewsey, Jim
AU - Robinson, Mark
AU - Beeston, Clare
AU - Giles, Lucie
PY - 2023
DA - July
TI - COVID-19 and commerce complicate assessing the impact of minimum unit pricing for alcohol on health outcomes in Scotland – Authors’ reply
JO - The Lancet
EP - 369
VL - 402
IS - 10399
DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01251-5
AB - 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.
PB - Elsevier
UR - https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/301119/
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
KW - Alcohol, tobacco and drugs
ER