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Activity Number:
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499
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, August 10, 2006 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Social Statistics Section
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| Abstract - #306421 |
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Title:
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A Policy Tool for Assessing Alcohol Intervention Strategies
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Author(s):
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Edward Wegman and Yasmin H. Said*+
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Companies:
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George Mason University and Johns Hopkins University
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Address:
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3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218,
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Keywords:
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acute outcomes ; DALY ; alcohol intervention ; stochastic digraph
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Abstract:
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This paper establishes a modeling framework for alcohol abuse that allows evaluation of interventions meant to reduce adverse effects of alcohol overuse without the financial, social and other costs of imposing interventions that are ultimately ineffective (or even simply not cost effective). The framework is ecological (individual agents and their activities are represented), stochastic (neither individual behavior nor consequences of interventions are certain) and flexible. Constructing the framework involves interactions among the domain science of alcohol studies, statistics, and computer science.
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