Estimating the number of people who inject drugs in Australia
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Estimating the number of people who inject drugs in Australia
BACKGROUND Injecting drug use is associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. Estimates of the size of the population of people who inject drugs are critical to inform service planning and estimate disease burden due to injecting drug use. We aimed to estimate the size of the population of people who inject drugs in Australia. METHODS We applied a multiplier method which used benchma...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-017-4785-7