{"id":28897,"date":"2023-07-20T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/?p=28897"},"modified":"2023-07-17T12:14:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T11:14:51","slug":"alcohol-minimum-pricing-in-scotland-has-resulted-in-an-estimated-13-4-per-cent-reduction-in-deaths-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2023\/07\/20\/alcohol-minimum-pricing-in-scotland-has-resulted-in-an-estimated-13-4-per-cent-reduction-in-deaths-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol minimum pricing in Scotland has resulted in an estimated 13.4 per cent reduction in deaths, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/The study estimated a 13.4% reduction in deaths, and a 4.1% reduction in hospital admissions, wholly attributable to alcohol consumption following the implementation of MU\">study<\/a> on alcohol minimum unit pricing in Scotland has found it resulted in an estimated 13.4% reduction in deaths and a 4.1% reduction in hospital admissions. The study also found that MUP reduced deaths and hospital admissions where alcohol consumption may be one of a range of causative factors. The findings cover the period from MUP implementation up to the end of 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publichealthscotland.scot\/publications\/evaluating-the-impact-of-minimum-unit-pricing-for-alcohol-in-scotland-a-synthesis-of-the-evidence\">Evaluating the impact of minimum unit pricing for alcohol in Scotland: A synthesis of the evidence &#8211; Publications &#8211; Public Health Scotland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study on alcohol minimum unit pricing in Scotland has found it resulted in an estimated 13.4% reduction in deaths and a 4.1% reduction in hospital admissions. The study also found that MUP reduced deaths and hospital admissions where alcohol consumption may be one of a range of causative factors. The findings cover the period &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2023\/07\/20\/alcohol-minimum-pricing-in-scotland-has-resulted-in-an-estimated-13-4-per-cent-reduction-in-deaths-study-finds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alcohol minimum pricing in Scotland has resulted in an estimated 13.4 per cent reduction in deaths, study finds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[8598],"class_list":["post-28897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alcohol-minimum-unit-pricing-scotland-reduction-in-deaths-reduction-in-admissions-public-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28899,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28897\/revisions\/28899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}