Modelling Drug Use Methods to Quantify and Understand Hidden Processes

Recoge : 1. Epidemiology of drug use at macro level - 2. What are dynamic models and how can they be used? - 3. Modelling drug misuse in Europe using geographic information systems - 4. Using available data with dynamic models to estimate the extent of problem drug use - 5. Multiple-indicator models - 6. The method of back calculation as a means of estimating incidence - 7. Compartmental modelling and stochastic dynamic systems - 8. Dynamic models in drug epidemiology - 9. Structural equations and path analyses - 10. Modelling infectious diseases and other health consequences - 11. Developing multinational scenario analyses of health impacts of drug use - 12. Modelling the health-care costs of drug-use-related disease - 13. Economic market models.