Rapid assessment, injecting drug use, and public health
The LancetPublished 1 July 1999
Tim Rhodes, Gerry V. Stimson, Chris Fitch, Andrew S. Ball, Adrian Renton
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It is argued that the public-health potential of rapid assessment has yet to be fully realised and that it should be given a central role as a generic public- health assessment and response.
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We argue that the public-health potential of rapidassessment has yet to be fully realised. We begin bysummarising the key methodological principlesunderpinning rapid assessment. We then draw on recentexamples of the rapid spread of HIV-1 infectionassociated with injecting drug use (IDU) in the newlyindependent states of Eastern Europe to emphasise thatrapidity, methodological pluralism, and an orientationtowards multisectoral intervention are critical features ofeffective public-health assessment and response. Weconclude by proposing that whereas rapid assessmentremains largely peripheral to mainstream public-healthapproaches, it should be given a central role as a generic
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