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Know Your Epidemic Know Your Response"-Epidemiological Assessment of the Substance Use Disorder Crisis in the United States

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About the Course

This course examines the epidemiological assessment of substance use disorder (SUD) using the “Know your epidemic, know your response” approach. It includes: demographic analysis, risk factors associated with mortality caused by substance use disorders, cluster analysis and spatiotemporal risk estimation, general demographic profile of the SUD epidemic in the U.S., and socioeconomic factors and comorbidities associated with the SUD epidemic.

This course is based on the reading-based online article, Know Your Epidemic, Know Your Response”-Epidemiological Assessment of the Substance Use Disorder Crisis in the United States created by Andrés Hernández et al. in 2021.

Publication Details

Publication Date: May 2021

Course Material Authors

Course Material Authors authored the material only, and were not involved in creating this CE course. They are identified here for your own evaluation of the relevancy of the material this course is based on.

Andrés Hernández
Andrés Hernández is a professor at the Health Geography and Disease Modeling Laboratory, University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio; and at the Department of Geography and GIS, University of Cincinnati, in Cincinnati, Ohio; and at the Department of Geo-information Processing, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, in Enschede, The Netherlands
Minxuan Lan
Minxuan Lan is a professor at the Department of Geography and GIS, University of Cincinnati, in Cincinnati, Ohio

Course Creator

L.A. Rankin

L.A. Rankin is a social worker with experience in many different settings with a variety of clients. She has worked with dementia and Alzheimers patients, dual diagnosis MH/MR, in a battered women’s shelter, and a rape crisis center. She also has 11 years of experience as a child protective social worker, where she earned certificates in domestic abuse/family violence and substance abuse.

Target Audience

Prevention professionals at all levels of knowledge.

Learning Objectives

After taking this course, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Discuss the need to understand the demographic and location factors in the SUD death epidemic.
  2. 2 Identify risk in demographic groups and location clusters.
  3. 3 Describe shifts in SUD death, including mental and physical health.

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Course Creator

L.A. Rankin – There are no relevant disclosures.

Commercial support

There is no commercial support for this distance-learning course.

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Course Details

1 CE Hour
Reading Online
Course 103384

Related Topics

Prevention

Availability

This course is available until Dec 4th, 2033.

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