Reaching Prevention Professionals: The Mentor Portal Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Drug Misuse Prevention Portal

Abstract

RAND Europe has conducted a cost-effectiveness analysis of the Mentor portal on drug misuse prevention. The main question of this research is: To what extent can the Mentor portal contribute to the benefits and the effectiveness of drug abuse prevention?" Although a pure cost-benefit analysis is not possible, taking the costs of the portal as the fixed expenditures for implementing it, this can be compared to various measures of non-monetisable benefit and some monetisable effectiveness estimations. The study starts with a review of the effectiveness of provision of information via the Internet in order to estimate the extent to which a portal can contribute to better prevention care

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA409843

Entities

People

  • Ineke Van Beusekom
  • Maarten Van De Voort
  • Silke Tonshoff

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Commerce
  • Computer Programming
  • Cost Benefit Analysis
  • Cost Effectiveness
  • Distance Learning
  • Drug Abuse
  • Drug Users
  • Electronic Mail
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Information Retrieval
  • Infrastructure
  • Internet
  • Language
  • Literature Surveys
  • Marketing
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

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