Incorporating a Health Equity Lens to Better Inform and Respond to Overdose

Incorporating a health equity lens is crucial to understand community needs, address disparities and develop equitable overdose prevention and response strategies. To better inform outreach and overdose response efforts, the Kansas Overdose Response Strategy (ORS) team integrated socioeconomic indicators and resource data into the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program (ODMAP) and Overdose Fatality Review (OFR) […]

Kansas PHA Receives Special Achievement in GIS Award at Esri User Conference

Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program (ODMAP) agencies can benefit from tools that enhance data use and incorporate a health equity lens in decision-making. To support this work, the Kansas Overdose Response Strategy (ORS) team created a new demographics layer in ArcGIS Online, Esri’s web-based mapping software. This layer, which became an embedded ODMAP layer, includes […]