Cost of start-up activities to implement a community-level opioid overdose reduction intervention in the HEALing Communities Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Communities That HEAL (CTH) is a novel, data-driven community-engaged intervention designed to reduce opioid overdose deaths by increasing community engagement, adoption of an integrated set of evidence-based practices, and delivering a communications campaign across healthcare, behavioral-health, criminal-legal, and other community-based settings. The implementation of such a complex initiative requires up-front investments of time and other expenditures (i.e., start-up costs). Despite the importance of these start-up costs in investment decisions to stakeholders, they are typically excluded from cost-effectiveness analyses. The objective of this study is to report a detailed analysis of CTH start-up costs pre-intervention implementation and to describe the relevance of

SUBMITTER: Montoya ID 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10988809 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature