Alcohol

• A free smartphone app, Drink Less, can help people who would benefit most from reducing their alcohol consumption to do so successfully
• Tighter local alcohol licensing curbs linked to fewer drink-related hospital admissions

Changing environmental cues to reduce alcohol consumption – findings suggested advertising, warnings, visual appeal, environment and the way alcohol is consumed could all have an impact on consumption.

Co-development of a culturally appropriate alcohol screening toolkit – designed to support professionals and organisations when talking to people from minoritised ethnic backgrounds about alcohol.

Developing a new school-based digital intervention to prevent harmful alcohol use among young people aged 13-14 years – qualitative research to underpin the development of a new internet-based intervention that could be embedded within the secondary school curriculum.

Optimising the alcohol reduction smartphone app: Drink Less – designed to improve the acceptability of the optimised version of Drink Less to maximise the appeal and usability of the app across the social spectrum.

Mapping the landscape of prenatal alcohol prevention in the UK – a summary of activities carried out, how they work, are perceived, and whether they improve the health of mothers and their children.

The green effect: can street greenness help reduce alcohol-related harm in UK cities? – This research illuminates an intriguing path for public health policies and urban planning. 

Exploring community engagement in local alcohol decision making – identified key research questions about how to improve community engagement in local alcohol decision making, to reduce health harms and inequalities.

Using theories of practice to develop event-level alcohol epidemiology and policy analysis – consideration of the contexts of alcohol consumption can help to understand how and why interventions affect alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harm.

Improving the evaluation of public health interventions: a focus on alcohol licensing – to help practitioners in local authorities make decisions around public health interventions and alcohol licensing.

Evaluating the impact of a Cumulative Impact Zone Policy to reduce alcohol-related harms in Islington Local Authority –  appeared to show a reduction in alcohol related harms without negatively impacting on the overall night-time economy in Islington.