As part of the Public Science Collaborative’s Alcohol Research Initiative, PSC partnered with Cerro Gordo County to strategize the design of an alcohol surveillance system. PSC worked with the county to identify community strengths, pressing problems, questions to guide action, and understand health and safety data needs.
As part of Public Science Collaborative’s Alcohol Research Initiative, this quick read highlights the relationship between alcohol retailers’ hours of operation in a neighborhood with its rates of binge drinking, violent crime, hospital admissions, property damage, and other occurrences.
As part of the Public Science Collaborative’s Alcohol Research Initiative, this quick read highlights how alcohol outlet densities (AODs) affect Iowa communities, especially in rural areas. This resource supports local efforts to design data-informed policies that reduce alcohol-related harms.
This research was funded by the Alcoholic Beverages Division (ABD), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the US Department of Agriculture. This work is an investigation into the location of and access to alcohol. In addition, alcohol’s harmful effects and risk factors of excessive alcohol consumption for individuals, families, and communities. While also developing …
As part of the Public Science Collaborative’s substance use work, PSC developed data resources to help public health leaders target prevention and treatment resources where they’re needed most. This dashboard uses predictive modeling and Census data to map substance use vulnerability across Iowa with the goal of reducing or preventing substance use disorders in these …
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As part of the Public Science Collaborative’s substance use work, PSC developed this dashboard to offer a visual tool for exploring how education, insurance, language, unemployment, and poverty influence health equity and substance use risks across Iowa communities, providing a better understanding of the environments that create and ameliorate the multifactorial risk factors of substance …
As part of the Public Science Collaborative’s substance use work, PSC developed this dashboard to visualize prescription opioid sales across Iowa, using Morphine Milligram Equivalents (MME) to highlight volume trends by location and population size. The dashboard allows users to assess, for example, whether pharmacies are overly concentrated in urban places or if sale rates …
