Background: Novel policy interventions may lack evaluation-based evidence.
Considerations to introduce minimum unit pricing (MUP) of alcohol in the UK were informed …

Context Scotland is the first country in the world to pass legislation introducing a minimum
unit price (MUP) for alcohol in an attempt to reduce consumption and associated harms by …

Background Minimum unit pricing of alcohol is a novel public health policy with the potential
to improve population health and reduce health inequalities. Theories of the policy process …

This methodology paper sets out a mathematical description of the Sheffield Alcohol Policy
Model version 2.0, a model to evaluate public health strategies for alcohol harm reduction in …

2.1 BACKGROUND The Sheffield Alcohol Research Group (SARG) at Sheffield University
have developed the Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model (SAPM) over the course of the past …

Background: In 2018, Scotland implemented a 50p-per-unit minimum unit price for alcohol.
Previous modelling estimated the impact of minimum unit pricing for England, Scotland …

Background In July 2022 the Scottish Government commissioned the Sheffield Alcohol
Research Group (SARG) to undertake new modelling work to inform a review of the 50p per …

3.1 BACKGROUND In 2009, the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group (SARG) at Sheffield
University developed the Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model version 2.0 (SAPM) to appraise the …

This paper sets out the development of a methodological framework for detailed evaluation
of public health strategies for alcohol harm reduction to meet UK policy-makers needs …

The minimum unit pricing (MUP) alcohol policy debate has been informed by the Sheffield
model, a study which predicts impacts of different alcohol pricing policies. This paper …