Reducing rural veteran suicides: Navigating geospatial and community contexts for scaling up a national Veterans Affairs program.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To develop and use planning maps to prioritize and facilitate county-level recruitment for Together With Veterans (TWV), community-based rural Veteran suicide prevention program.

Method

Choropleth maps were created for 49 U.S. states, with four mutually exclusive categories indicating eligibility for the TWV program and increasing levels of need assigned to each county based on (a) percent Veterans Health Administration enrollees residing in rural communities, (b) percent population that are Veterans, and (c) crude suicide mortality rate.

Results

Of 3113 counties, 78.2% were eligible for TWV and 25.8% met our highest priority definition. A national map and state map were provided to demonstrate final products used to engage stakeholders. A table of recommend

SUBMITTER: Kreisel CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8252578 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature