作者
Yuhui Zhu, Zhe Fei, Larissa J Mooney, Kaitlyn Huang, Yih-Ing Hser
发表日期
2022/1/1
期刊
Journal of addiction medicine
卷号
16
期号
1
页码范围
e52-e55
出版商
LWW
简介
Objectives:
Both COVID-19 deaths and opioid overdose deaths continue to increase in the United States. Little is known about the characteristics of counties with high rates of mortality for both.
Methods:
We analyzed county-level data on COVID-19 mortality from January 1 to May 31, 2020, and on opioid overdose mortality during 2014-2018. The outcome variable,“high-risk county” was a binary indicator of high mortality rates (above 75% quartile) for both COVID-19 and opioid overdose. We conducted geospatial logistic regression models separately for urban and rural counties to identify social determinants of health associated with being a high-risk county.
Results:
After adjusting for other covariates, the overall mortality rate of COVID-19 is higher in counties with larger population size and a higher proportion of racial/ethnic minorities, although counties with high rates of opioid overdose mortality have lower …
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