Impact of migration from an illicit drug scene on hospital outcomes among people who use illicit drugs in Vancouver, Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction and aims

People who use illicit drugs (PWUD) are vulnerable to an array of negative health outcomes, and increased hospital services utilisation. PWUD are also a transient population which poses challenges to the provision of optimal health care. The objective of this study was to identify out-migration patterns from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES), a neighbourhood where services for PWUD are concentrated, and to estimate the impact of these patterns on hospitalisation events among PWUD.

Design and methods

Data were collected through three prospective cohorts of PWUD in Vancouver, which were linked with health administrative data. Latent class growth analysis was used to define migration trajectory groups. Poisson regression was used to estimate the effect

SUBMITTER: Beaulieu T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7864616 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature