Prevalence of injecting drug use in Estonia 2010-2015: a capture-recapture study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It has been observed in an earlier study that the number of people who inject drugs (PWID) in Estonia is declining. We provide nationwide estimates of the number of PWID in Estonia for years 2010-2015 and compare different modelling strategies to minimise over-coverage-induced bias in capture-recapture estimates.

Methods

We obtained data from the Estonian Causes of Death Registry (DR) for opioid-related deaths, the Estonian Health Insurance Fund (HIF) for opioid-related overdose and drug dependence treatment episodes, and the Estonian Police and Border Guard Board (PB) drug-related misdemeanours. Datasets were linked by identifier based on sex, date of birth, and initials; a capture-recapture method was used to estimate the number of PWID aged 15 or more, each yea

SUBMITTER: Raag M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6416985 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature