Geography, Rurality, and Community Distress: Deaths Due to Suicide, Alcohol-Use, and Drug-Use among Colorado Veterans

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Explores the connection between distressed communities and mortality disparities in the Colorado veteran population. Utilizes 2009-2020 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) to examine suicide, alcohol, and drug related mortalities, with demographic data broken down by sex, age, marital status, distressed community index (DCI), and frontier, rural, or urban location. Includes county-level maps showing DCI and rurality.

Talia L. Spark, Colleen E. Reid, Rachel Sayko Adams, et al.

Injury Epidemiology, 10, 8

02/2023

Alcohol use · Health disparities · Illicit drug use · Mortality · Rural-urban differences · Social determinants of health · Statistics and data · Suicide and suicide prevention · Veterans · Colorado