21 Documents disponibles écrits par cet auteur
FRANÇAIS : Buts : évaluer la prévalence de l'abus d'opiacés et de benzodiazépines dans la zone dépendant du district de santé de Grampian (-incluant la ville d'Aberdeen) en Ecosse et illustrer l'utilisation de la méthode "capture-recapture" dan[...]
GEMMEL I. ; T. MILLAR ; G. HAY | 2004
Dans Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (Vol.58, n°9, September 2004) Article : PériodiqueStudy objective: To establish the prevalence of problem drug use in the 10 local authorities within the Metropolitan County of Greater Manchester between April 2000 and March 2001. Setting and participants: Problem drug users aged 16-54 resident[...]
ENGLISH : Estimates of the prevalence of problem drug use, defined within this study as the illicit use of opiates or benzodiazepines, have been provided for all 32 local government areas in Scotland. A national prevalence estimate has been de[...]
FRANÇAIS : L'étude se fait à partir de 505 usagers de drogue injectée à Glasgow. On analyse ici, deux méthodes différentes de recueil de données sur les pratiques de partage d'aiguilles et de seringues : d'une part des questions directes sur le[...]
M. BLOOR ; M. GANNON ; G. HAY ; G. JACKSON ; A. H. LEYLAND ; N. McKEGANEY | 2008
Dans British Medical Journal (Vol.337, n°7666, 16 August 2008) Article : PériodiqueOBJECTIVES: To examine the "Scottish effect" - namely, the growing divergence between mortality in Scotland and England that is not explained by national differences in levels of deprivation - and, more specifically, to examine the extent to whi[...]
G. HAY ; N. McKEGANEY ; E. BIRKS ; L. WIESSING ; R. HARTNOLL ; P. Y. BELLO ; C. M. COMISKEY ; D. D'IPPOLITI ; A. DOMINGO-SALVANY ; FREIRE S. ; M. MOREIRA ; NORÉN A. ; PARTANEN P. ; POLITIKOU K. ; SEIDLER D. ; F. SMIT ; TOET J. ; A. UHL ; VIRTANEN A. | 1997
RapportENGLISH : This report presents the findings from an EMCDDA funded Methodological Pilot Study of Local Level Prevalence Estimates. Following on from a joint EMCDDA / Pompidou Group meeting, comparative pilot studies to improve the prevalence es[...]
This report provides estimates of the prevalence of opiate and/or crack cocaine use at the Government Office Region and national level in England for 2009/10. It is a follow up to the four reports that provided prevalence estimates for 2004/05 ([...]
This report presents the findings of Sweep 13 of the estimates of the prevalence of opiate and/or crack cocaine use in England, covering 2016/17. These continue the long time series of opiate and/or crack cocaine use prevalence estimates, starti[...]
R. KING ; S. M. BIRD ; A. OVERSTALL ; G. HAY ; S. J. HUTCHINSON | 2014
Dans Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A-Statistics in Society (Vol.177, n°1, January 2014) Article : PériodiqueInjecting drug users (IDUs) have a direct social and economic effect yet can typically be regarded as a hidden population within a community. We estimate the size of the IDU population across the nine different Government Office regions of Engla[...]
G. HAY ; F. SMIT | 2003
Dans Addiction Research and Theory (Vol.11, n°4, August 2003) Article : PériodiqueENGLISH : Background. Information on the size of a drug injecting population is required for resource allocation and health service evaluation. The truncated Poisson (tP) estimator is a method of prevalence estimation which, in contrast to the[...]
M. HICKMAN ; C. TAYLOR ; A. CHATTERJEE ; L. DEGENHARDT ; M. FRISCHER ; G. HAY ; K. TILLING ; L. WIESSING ; P. GRIFFITHS ; R. McKETIN | 2002
PériodiqueLes décideurs ont de plus en plus besoin d'estimations de la prévalence de la consommation problématique de drogues, comme l'usage par voie intraveineuse et la consommation de "crack". Dans cet article, les auteurs passent en revue les méthodes [...]
Although the human right of individuals around the world has been recognised and enshrined in the United Nations 1966 Convention, global drug policies continue to debate the prevailing philosophies of treatment and practice and often fail to mon[...]
N. McKEGANEY ; CASEY J. ; J. McGALLAGLY ; G. HAY | 2009
Dans Journal of Substance Use (Vol.14 n°3-4, 2009) Article : PériodiqueENGLISH : The seizure of illicit drugs is a key component of the U.K. drug strategy. Whilst information on the quantity of drugs seized and their weight is routinely collected by enforcement agencies, and released to the media, interpreting th[...]
R. KING ; S. M. BIRD ; A. OVERSTALL ; G. HAY ; S. J. HUTCHINSON | 2013
Dans Addiction Research and Theory (Vol.21, n°3, June 2013) Article : PériodiqueUsing Bayesian capture-recapture analysis, we estimated the number of current injecting drug users (IDUs) in Scotland in 2006 from the cross-counts of 5670 IDUs listed on four data-sources: social enquiry reports (901 IDUs listed), hospital reco[...]
G. HAY ; N. McKEGANEY ; L. WIESSING ; R. HARTNOLL ; P. Y. BELLO ; D. D'IPPOLITI ; A. DOMINGO-SALVANY ; M. FRISCHER ; L. KRAUS ; F. SMIT | 1999
Rapport'How many people use illicit drugs?' is a question which is deceptively easy to ask but notoriously difficult to answer. To examine the tools which were available to answer this question a scientific seminar was organised by the European Monitor[...]
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