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Drug and alcohol abuse monitoring and prevention has been pushed from the national to the local and community level. How do communities go about measuring the effectiveness of their drug and alcohol abuse programs? Aimed at providing communities and researchers with the needed analytic and practical tools for assessing their programs, Measuring Community Indicators begins with a presentation of how to collect community indicator data.
The authors argue that while highly aggregated national data performs a number of important research and policy functions, such data are distinct from community indicator data and are of questionable use to local policy oriented officials. They present a theoretical perspective - developed from community systems theory - as a basis for the practical strategies outlined in the book. They then cover such topics as different community indicators, the role of community surveys in filling the gaps in available "official statistics," and specific techniques for the primary collection of community indicator data (such as geographical mapping, systems of community data acquisition, and community contact maintenance).
Researchers and evaluators of substance abuse and substance abuse programs will find this book provides them with the interdisciplinary information necessary to conceptualize and measure community drug and alcohol problems.
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Statistical methods, Statistics, Polytoxicomanie, Alcoholisme, Alkoholmissbrauch, Substance abuse, Drogenmissbrauch, Drugsverslaving, Social indicators, Methodes statistiques, Sozialer Indikator, Indicateurs sociaux, Statistiques, Sociale indicatoren, Community life, Drug abuse, prevention, Alcoholism, preventionPlaces
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Measuring community indicators: a systems approach to drug and alcohol problems
1997, Sage Publications
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Measuring Community Indicators: A Systems Approach to Drug and Alcohol Problems (Applied Social Research Methods)
November 5, 1996, Sage Publications, Inc, SAGE Publications, Inc
Paperback
in English
0761906851 9780761906858
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Measuring Community Indicators: A Systems Approach to Drug and Alcohol Problems (Applied Social Research Methods)
November 26, 1996, Sage Publications, Inc
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0761906843 9780761906841
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