Counting hard-to-count populations: the network scale-up method for public health
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Counting hard-to-count populations: the network scale-up method for public health
Estimating sizes of hidden or hard-to-reach populations is an important problem in public health. For example, estimates of the sizes of populations at highest risk for HIV and AIDS are needed for designing, evaluating and allocating funding for treatment and prevention programmes. A promising approach to size estimation, relatively new to public health, is the network scale-up method (NSUM), i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sexually Transmitted Infections
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1368-4973
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2010.044446