Assessing the use of agent-based models for tobacco regulation
Tobacco consumption continues to be the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates the manufacture, distribution, and marketing of tobacco products -- specifically cigarettes, cigarette tobacco, roll-your-own tobacco, and smo...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C.
National Academies Press
[2015], 2015
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| Summary: | Tobacco consumption continues to be the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates the manufacture, distribution, and marketing of tobacco products -- specifically cigarettes, cigarette tobacco, roll-your-own tobacco, and smokeless tobacco -- to protect public health and reduce tobacco use in the United States. Given the strong social component inherent to tobacco use onset, cessation, and relapse, and given the heterogeneity of those social interactions, agent-based models have the potential to be an essential tool in assessing the effects of policies to control tobacco. Assessing the Use of Agent-Based Models for Tobacco Regulation describes the complex tobacco environment; discusses the usefulness of agent-based models to inform tobacco policy and regulation; presents an evaluation framework for policy-relevant agent-based models; examines the role and type of data needed to develop agent-based models for tobacco regulation; provides an assessment of the agent-based model developed for FDA; and offers strategies for using agent-based models to inform decision making in the future |
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| Item Description: | Title from PDF title page |
| Physical Description: | 1 PDF file (xviii, 271 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0309317223 9780309317221 |