Contextual Interventions for Controlling Alcohol Drinking

Anuj Mubayi; Priscilla E. Greenwood

doi:10.1080/08898480.2013.748588

Contextual Interventions for Controlling Alcohol Drinking

Anuj Mubayi, Priscilla E. Greenwood

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The dynamics of an alcohol drinking population are subject to environment-specific control programs. The stochastic model is developed that includes populations of light, moderate, and heavy drinkers, interacting in two contrasting risk-level drinking environments. For colleges with serious drinking problems, the times to disappearance of serious drinkers show that environment-dependent control programs have lasting efficacy when they are implemented according to the risk level of the environments and not by simply focusing on heavy drinking.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	27-53
Number of pages	27
Journal	Mathematical population studies
Volume	20
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/08898480.2013.748588
State	Published - Jan 2013

Keywords

disappearance time
prevention and interventions
quasi-stationary state
social environments
social influences

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Demography
Geography, Planning and Development
Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all)

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