Open AccessEstimating the Number of People Who Inject Drugs in A Rural County in Appalachia
Author(s) -
Sean T. Allen,
Allison O’Rourke,
Rebecca Hamilton White,
Kristin E. Schneider,
Michael E. Kilkenny,
Susan G. Sherman
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2018.304873
Subject(s) - medicine , appalachia , heroin , demography , environmental health , residence , confidence interval , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , population , syringe , gerontology , family medicine , drug , psychiatry , paleontology , sociology , biology
To demonstrate how we applied the capture-recapture method for population estimation directly in a rural Appalachian county (Cabell County, WV) to estimate the number of people who inject drugs (PWID).