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Awarding Health: Contracts at the National Institutes of a Sensitivity Analysis of the Critical Parameters
Author(s) -
Stotts R. Craig,
Kessler Larry G.,
Hershey John C.,
Hall Nicholas G.,
Gruman Jessie G.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
international transactions in operational research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.032
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1475-3995
pISSN - 0969-6016
DOI - 10.1111/1475-3995.d01-14
Subject(s) - tobacco control , sensitivity (control systems) , political science , public administration , operations research , medicine , engineering , public health , nursing , electronic engineering
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) developed an initiative that will support tobacco prevention and control research in 17 states. The model that NCI used for choosing those states that would be funded is described in Hall et al. (Operations Research, Vol. 40, pp. 1040–1052, 1992). In this paper, we present sensitivity analyses of the critical parameters of that model, and we discuss the policy implications for nationwide tobacco control efforts.