Developing policy analytics for public health strategy and decisions—the Sheffield alcohol policy model framework

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 236, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 149-176

  Brennan, Alan ^a   Meier, Petra ^a   Purshouse, Robin ^a   Rafia, Rachid ^a   Meng, Yang ^a   Hill Macmanus, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analytics; Modelling methodology; Policy evaluation; Public health

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953455556     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-013-1451-z     Document Type: Article

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