A systems approach to college drinking: Development of a deterministic model for testing alcohol control policies

Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 805-821

  Scribner, Richard ^a   Ackleh, Azmy S ^a,b   Fitzpatrick, Ben G ^a,c   Jacquez, Geoffrey ^a,d   Thibodeaux, Jeremy J ^a,e   Rommel, Robert ^a,f   Simonsen, Neal ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^c LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^f BIOMEDWARE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; COMPUTER PREDICTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POLICY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

EID: 70349268364     PISSN: 19371888     EISSN: 19384114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15288/jsad.2009.70.805     Document Type: Article

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