Intervention to Prevention

Intervention to Prevention
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244
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9783836478625
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The cover image ranges from dark to light just as intervention in alcohol addiction raises the soul from despair and despondency to hope and health. This book focuses on tools for building a model that allows the investigator to understand the relationships among the negative acute outcomes related to alcohol consumption. This model, in turn, can be used to develop a policy tool to study interventions that minimize the probability simultaneously of acute outcomes occurring. The model is mathematically and statistically based; in particular, it is an agent-based, time-dependent stochastic hierarchical directed graph model that also includes the social network phenomena. The mathematical underpinnings of this model involve probability theory, graph theory, and social network analysis. This book presents a methodology and a tool for investigating the impact of interventions on the multinomial distribution of acute outcomes associated with alcohol misuse. The model is calibrated by...

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