Rethinking urban-rural designations in public health surveillance of the overdose crisis and crafting an agenda for future monitoring

Original research
by
Textor, Lauren et al

Release Date

2023

Geography

USA

Language of Resource

English

Full Text Available

Yes

Open Access / OK to Reproduce

Yes

Peer Reviewed

Yes

Objective

Using national overdose data from 1999-2021, we illustrate the intersectional importance of rurality for overdose surveillance.

Findings/Key points

Rural/urban categories that have shaped U.S. opioid narratives are misleading. Overdose trends have risen nearly uniformly across urban/rural designations. Urbanicity/rurality is still a key axis to understand inequality in drug overdose.

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Keywords

Rural/remote
Overdose