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Titolo: |
An ounce of prevention, a pound of uncertainty : the cost-effectiveness of school-based drug prevention programs / / Jonathan P. Caulkins ... [et al.]
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Pubblicazione: | Santa Monica, CA, : Rand, 1999 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.29/17/0973 |
Soggetto topico: | Youth - Drug use - United States - Prevention - Cost effectiveness |
Students - Drug use - United States - Prevention - Cost effectiveness | |
Cocaine abuse - United States - Prevention - Cost effectiveness | |
Drug abuse - Study and teaching - United States - Cost effectiveness | |
Altri autori: |
CaulkinsJonathan P <1965-> (Jonathan Paul)
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-194). |
Nota di contenuto: | ""PREFACE""; ""FIGURES""; ""TABLES""; ""SUMMARY""; ""EFFECT PER PROGRAM PARTICIPANT""; ""Proportion of Persons Who Would Have Ever Used Cocaine""; ""Lifetime Cocaine Consumption Per User (grams)""; ""Percentage Reduction in Cocaine Use Due to Prevention Program""; ""Discount Factor""; ""Social Multiplier""; ""Market Multiplier""; ""Causation/Correlation Ratio""; ""Scale-Up Factor""; ""Overall Effectiveness (grams per participant)""; ""COST-EFFECTIVENESS""; ""Program Cost (dollars per participant)""; ""Cost-Effectiveness (kilograms of cocaine consumption averted per million dollars spent)"" |
""AGGREGATE EFFECTS AND OTHER BENEFITS""""CONCLUSION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""AN ANALYSIS OF COSTS AND EFFECTIVENESS""; ""BEYOND COST-EFFECTIVENESS""; ""AN ISSUE NOT YET EXAMINED""; ""OUR FOCUS""; ""EFFECTIVENESS AT REDUCING COCAINE CONSUMPTION""; ""EFFECT ON COHORT MEMBERS PARTICIPATING IN PROGRAM""; ""Proportion of Cohort That Would Otherwise Use Cocaine""; ""Lifetime Consumption""; ""Program Effect""; ""Discount Factor""; ""Summary""; ""MULTIPLIERS""; ""Social Multiplier""; ""Market Multiplier""; ""QUALIFIERS""; ""INTEGRATING THE FACTORS""; ""Uncertainty"" | |
""Sources of Effect""""COST-EFFECTIVENESS AT REDUCING COCAINE CONSUMPTION""; ""DEFINING PROGRAM COST""; ""ESTIMATING PROGRAM COST""; ""ESTIMATING COST-EFFECTIVENESS AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF UNCERTAINTY""; ""VARIATION WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME""; ""OTHER BENEFITS""; ""ESTIMATING THE EFFECT ON USE OF DRUGS OTHER THAN COCAINE""; ""Simple Program Effectiveness""; ""Other Factors""; ""Comparison of Effects""; ""SOCIAL SAVINGS FROM REDUCED DRUG USE""; ""Cocaine""; ""Other Drugs""; ""BENEFITS UNRELATED TO REDUCED DRUG CONSUMPTION""; ""NATIONWIDE IMPLEMENTATION"" | |
""IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CURRENT COCAINE EPIDEMIC""""IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE EPIDEMICS""; ""IMPLICATIONS FOR THE LEGALIZATION DEBATE""; ""CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS""; ""MODEL PREVENTION PROGRAMS APPEAR TO BE COMPETITIVE WITH ENFORCEMENT""; ""GREAT UNCERTAINTY REMAINS ABOUT PREVENTION�S COST- EFFECTIVENESS""; ""THE SOURCE OF BENEFITS IS NOT WHAT MIGHT BE EXPECTED""; ""DRUG USE PREVENTION HAS BENEFITS OTHER THAN REDUCED COCAINE USE""; ""A NATIONAL PROGRAM IS AFFORDABLE BUT WILL NOT END THE COCAINE EPIDEMIC""; ""DRUG PREVENTION SHOULD BE CONDUCTED BEFORE IT IS PERCEIVED NECESSARY"" | |
""PREVENTION CANNOT SUBSTITUTE FOR ENFORCEMENT IN A LEGALIZATION REGIME""""THE BOTTOM LINE""; ""ESTIMATING AVERAGE LIFETIME COCAINE CONSUMPTION""; ""HISTORICAL CONSUMPTION DIVIDED BY NUMBER OF USERS""; ""CONSUMPTION PROJECTED THROUGH A MODEL OVER AN INFINITE HORIZON""; ""CONSUMPTION PROJECTED THROUGH A MODEL OVER A FINITE HORIZON""; ""ADJUSTING THE HISTORICAL APPROACH FOR YEARS OF USE""; ""STEADY-STATE ESTIMATE""; ""SUMMARY""; ""PREVENTION�S EFFECTIVENESS AT REDUCING MARIJUANA INITIATION"" | |
""RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AGE OF MARIJUANA INITIATION AND LIFETIME CONSUMPTION OF COCAINE AND MARIJUANA"" | |
Titolo autorizzato: | An ounce of prevention, a pound of uncertainty ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-8330-4328-5 |
0-585-24546-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910826429703321 |
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