As part of the Public Science Collaborative’s substance use work, this dashboard enables rich exploratory and descriptive analysis of treatment episode data in Iowa. The data pages allow users to drill down to a single region and explore demographic patterns, uncover emerging risk profiles, and understand trends in treatment episode admissions in their area. Dashboard […]
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As part of the Public Science Collaborative’s Substance Use Recovery work, the Recovery Ready Community Index (RRCI) Dashboard measures recovery resources across Iowa communities. This interactive tool helps identify where support for substance use recovery is strongest and guides efforts to build recovery-friendly environments.
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As part of the Public Science Collaborative’s substance use monitoring work, this dashboard helps visualize the landscape of substance use in Barton County, Kansas by supporting stakeholders in designing data-driven interventions to improve community health and safety.
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The Public Science Collaborative conducted background research, prototyping, user listening sessions, and system design to prepare Iowa’s Department of Health and Human Services for building the statewide Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) Platform. The dashboards on the state’s platform display information on substance use disorder treatment admissions, substance involved deaths, and hospitalizations and emergency department
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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
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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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This research was funded by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Focused on prevention, this work specifically targets reducing morbidity and mortality rates related to substance use. Through the process of compiling data, prevention and intervention can be informed, targeted, and timely. Dashboards were created to promote equity in healthcare, inform action with data, improve
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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
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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
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As part of the Public Science Collaborative’s Substance Use Recovery work, this quick read highlights PSC’s partnership with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach’s longstanding and nationally-recognized The Science of Parenting podcast to create a podcast season focused on the common challenges for parents in substance use recovery.
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