Assessing the use of agent-based models for tobacco regulation / Committee on Assessment of Agent-Based Models to Inform Tobacco Product Regulation, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Robert Wallace, Amy Geller, and V. Ayano Ogawa, Editors, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Institute of Medicine (U.S.), Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Wallace, Robert, editor.

Geller, Amy (Amy B.), editor.

Ogawa, V. Ayano, editor.

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Assessment of Agent-Based Models to Inform Tobacco Product Regulation, issuing body.

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smoking--Health aspects.

Smoking.

Smoking cessation.

Tobacco use--Prevention.

Tobacco use.

Tobacco use--Health aspects--Research--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

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."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Front Matter; Reviewers; Contents; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Preface; Summary; 1 Introduction; 2 Tobacco Control Landscape; 3 Building Effective Models to Guide Policy Decision Making; 4 An Evaluation Framework for Policy-Relevant Agent-Based Models; 5 Review of the Social Network Analysis for Policy on Directed Graph Networks Model; 6 Data and Implementation Needs for Computational Modeling for Tobacco Control; Appendix A: Considerations and Best Practices in Agent-Based Modeling to Inform Policy

Ross A. Hammond; Appendix B: Agent-Based Models for Policy Analysis

Lawrence Blume

Appendix C: Assessing Agent-Based Models for Regulatory Applications: Lessons from Energy Analysis

Alan H. Sanstad Appendix D: Committee Meeting Agendas; Appendix E: Committee Biographical Sketches; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 4, 2015).

ISBN:

9780309317252

0309317258

9780309317238

0309317231

OCLC:

915981814