Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland's Alcohol Strategy (MESAS) Archive
The MESAS Portfolio
Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland’s Alcohol Strategy (MESAS) is a portfolio of evaluation studies led by NHS Health Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Government (2010-2014).
The studies started at the beginning of 2010 and will run through to 2015, with the monitoring of data continuing beyond.
Go to the MESAS page for further information about the evaluation, the current publications and the latest news.
Old publications (superceded by current publications) and historical documents are stored below for reference.
Archive
NHS Health Scotland contributed the evidence supporting a comprehensive range of actions with the goal of reducing levels of alcohol consumption in Scotland:
Reducing alcohol-related harm in Scotland: Using evidence and logic modelling as a basis for future action.
Two papers looking at alcohol sales (volume), based upon industry data collected by The Nielsen Company, were published in 2010.
Links to these are provided below for record only and should not be used as the data has now been updated in the first annual (baseline) report published in March 2011.
Analysis of alcohol sales data, 2005-2009 (July 2010). Originally published January 2010, updated July 2010 to include figures for the full calendar year 2009.
Analysis of alcohol sales data, 2005-2009 (January 2010). This report was superceded by the updated version, published July 2010.
For further information contact
Fiona Myers
NHS Health Scotland