• SCALA Implementation Framework

    Main output

    SCALA Implementation Framework
    THE SCALA FRAMEWORK, the main outcome of SCALA, provides step-by-step guidance and issues to consider when implementing the SCALA 'ask and advise about alcohol' program through a primary health care system at the municipal level, to tackle the public health impacts of alcohol in Latin America and globally.

    Click here to download the SCALA Framework Document

    (click here to see all SCALA project outputs)

  • SCALA at a glance

    Overview

    SCALA at a glance
    SCALA is a 4-year H2020 project (from Dec 2017 - Dec 2021), with a budget of €3M, which will test the scale-up of primary health care-based prevention and management of heavy drinking and co-morbid depression through training and on-going support embedded in community-based municipal action

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  • SCALA adapts to the pandemic

    COVID-19

    SCALA adapts to the pandemic
    The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has various impacts on SCALA, due to the need to support telemedecine, the strain put on primary health systems, and the anxiety and fear that the virus is causing in societies worldwide.

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  • The SCALA Study

    Implementation study

    The SCALA Study
    The SCALA study will test the hypothesis that the scale-up of implementing a tailored brief intervention package embedded in a wider strategy of community and municipal support in Latin American cities, will increase screening and advice rates for heavy drinking and co-morbid depression more than the usual practice, carried out by health care providers alone. Find out more...
  • Who is working on SCALA?

    People

    Who is working on SCALA?
    SCALA involves over 25 scientists from 9 different institutions located in 7 countries in Europe and Latin America

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The SCALA project started at the beginning of December 2017, and will run for four years (ending on 30 November 2021), with the first action-packed year seeing the development of whole-project plans, tailoring of the SCALA intervention package and set-up of the implementation study in 3 Latin American locations.

Project deliverables which will be completed in the first project year (2018) include:

  • The SCALA Engagement, Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation Plan (initial version for ongoing revision)
  • Data management and analysis plan
  • First study subject approvals package
  • Mid-term recruitment report (half of PHCC recruited to study)
  • SCALA Study protocol
  • Municipal-based action plans
  • SCALA intervention package (tailored to local contexts)
  • SCALA training package (to support implementation in PHCU teams of professionals)

Watch this space!