311 service requests as indicators of neighborhood distress and opioid use disorder.

ABSTRACT: Opioid use disorder and overdose deaths is a public health crisis in the United States, and there is increasing recognition that its etiology is rooted in part by social determinants such as poverty, isolation and social upheaval. Limiting research and policy interventions is the low temporal and spatial resolution of publicly available administrative data such as census data. We explore the use of municipal service requests (also known as "311" requests) as high resolution spatial and temporal indicators of neighborhood social distress and opioid misuse. We analyze the spatial associations between georeferenced opioid overdose event (OOE) data from emergency medical service responders and 311 service request data from the City of Columbus, OH, USA for the time period 2008-2017. We find 10

SUBMITTER: Li Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7658248 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature