Citation

Hopkins RS, Landen M, Toe M. Public Health Rep. (1974) 2018; 133(5): 523-531.

Affiliation

Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Association of Schools of Public Health)

DOI

10.1177/0033354918784913

PMID

30075094

Abstract

Substance use and mental health disorders can result in disability, death, and economic cost. In the United States, rates of death from suicide, drug overdose, and chronic liver disease (a marker for alcohol abuse) have been rising for the past 15 years. Good public health surveillance for these disorders, their consequences, and their risk factors is crucially important for their prevention and control, but surveillance has not been conducted consistently in the states. In 2015, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists convened a workgroup to develop a set of uniformly defined surveillance indicators that could be used by state and local health departments to monitor these disorders and to compare their occurrence in various jurisdictions. This report briefly describes the indicators and outlines the process used to develop them.

Language: en

Keywords

Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists; mental health; public health surveillance; substance abuse; substance use; surveillance indicators