Estimating the prevalence of injecting drug users on the basis of Markov models of the HIV/AIDS epidemic: Applications to Italian data

Health Care Management Science

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 173-179

  Rossi, Carla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

AIDS epidemic; Dynamic models; Hidden populations; Injecting use of drugs; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; ITALY; METHODOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; ITALY; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 0033156021     PISSN: 13869620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019039912559     Document Type: Article

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