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| Title |
Geospatial Analysis of Drug Poisoning Deaths Involving Heroin in the USA, 2000–2014
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| Published in |
Journal of Urban Health, June 2017
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11524-017-0177-7 |
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| Authors |
Kathleen Stewart, Yanjia Cao, Margaret H. Hsu, Eleanor Artigiani, Eric Wish |
| Abstract |
We investigate the geographic patterns of drug poisoning deaths involving heroin by county for the USA from 2000 to 2014. The county-level patterns of mortality are examined with respect to age-adjusted rates of death for different classes of urbanization and racial and ethnic groups, while rates based on raw counts of drug poisoning deaths involving heroin are estimated for different age groups and by gender. To account for possible underestimations in these rates due to small areas or small numbers, spatial empirical Baye's estimation techniques have been used to smooth the rates of death and alleviate underestimation when analyzing spatial patterns for these different groups. The geographic pattern of poisoning deaths involving heroin has shifted from the west coast of the USA in the year 2000 to New England, the Mid-Atlantic region, and the Great Lakes and central Ohio Valley by 2014. The evolution over space and time of clusters of drug poisoning deaths involving heroin is confirmed through the SaTScan analysis. For this period, White males were found to be the most impacted population group overall; however, Blacks and Hispanics are highly impacted in counties where significant populations of these two groups reside. Our results show that while 35-54-year-olds were the most highly impacted age group by county from 2000 to 2010, by 2014, the trend had changed with an increasing number of counties experiencing higher death rates for individuals 25-34 years. The percentage of counties across the USA classified as large metro with deaths involving heroin is estimated to have decreased from approximately 73% in 2010 to just fewer than 56% in 2014, with a shift to small metro and non-metro counties. Understanding the geographic variations in impact on different population groups in the USA has become particularly necessary in light of the extreme increase in the use and misuse of street drugs including heroin and the subsequent rise in opioid-related deaths in the USA. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 86% |
| Unknown | 1 | 14% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 86% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 14% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 83 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 83 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 18 | 22% |
| Researcher | 16 | 19% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 17% |
| Other | 6 | 7% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 11 | 13% |
| Unknown | 13 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 19 | 23% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 11 | 13% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 5% |
| Computer Science | 3 | 4% |
| Psychology | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 20 | 24% |
| Unknown | 23 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 September 2018.
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#14,253,126
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Outputs from Journal of Urban Health
#1,009
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#154,263
of 322,710 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Urban Health
#16
of 23 outputs
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