Estimating the burden of the opioid epidemic for adults and adolescents in Ohio counties.

ABSTRACT: Quantifying the opioid epidemic at the local level is a challenging problem that has important consequences on resource allocation. Adults and adolescents may exhibit different spatial trends and require different interventions and resources so it is important to examine the problem for each age group. In Ohio, surveillance data are collected at the county level for each age group on measurable outcomes of the opioid epidemic, overdose deaths, and treatment admissions. However, our interest lies in quantifying the unmeasurable construct, representing the burden of the opioid epidemic, which drives rates of the outcomes. We propose jointly modeling adult and adolescent surveillance outcomes through a multivariate spatial factor model. A generalized spatial factor model within each age group

SUBMITTER: Kline D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7666653 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature