The Opioid Environment Policy Scan (OEPS) is an open source data ecosystem that helps characterize the multi-dimensional risk environment impacting opioid use and health outcomes across the United States.
This code base holds the all components of the OEPS project, including the CSV files that contain the raw data itself.
- OEPS Documentation: healthyregions.github.io/oeps
- The full, technical documentation deployed via Github pages.
- Start here if you are looking to learn about how OEPS is put together, or are a developer that will be working on this code base.
- OEPS Explorer: oeps.healthyregions.org
- OEPS Backend
- The backend is a Flask app that manages the many variables and datasets that makeup the OEPS data warehouse.
- The backend uses Frictionless Standards internally and features multiple export pipelines to different systems.
- The backend holds a registry as well as the raw CSV data itself.
See also:
- oepsData: An R data package wrapper around OEPS data
- GeoDaCenter/opioid-policy-scan: The original OEPS data repository (see legacy-migration for more information about how this repository relates to that one)
OEPS provides access to data at multiple spatial scales, from U.S. states down to Census tracts, as well different time periods, with data from 1980 to today. It is designed to support research seeking to study environments impacting and impacted by opioid use and opioid use disorder (OUD), inform public policy, and reduce harm in communities nationwide.
Variable constructs have been grouped thematically to highlight the multi-dimensional risk environment of opioid use in justice populations. The variable themes are: Geography, Social, Environment, Economic, Policy, Outcome, and Composite.
This project is led by the Healthy Regions & Policies Lab in the Department of Geography and GIScience at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Susan Paykin, Dylan Halpern, Qinyun Lin, Moksha Menghaney, Angela Li, Rachel Vigil, Margot Bolanos Gamez, Alexa Jin, Ally Muszynski, and Marynia Kolak. (2021). GeoDaCenter/opioid-policy-scan: Opioid Environment Policy Scan Data Warehouse (v1.0). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4747876
Adam Cox, Ashlynn Wimer, Sara Lambert, Susan Paykin, Dylan Halpern, Qinyun Lin, Moksha Menghaney, Angela Li, Rachel Vigil, Margot Bolanos Gamez, Alexa Jin, Ally Muszynski, and Marynia Kolak. (2024). healthyregions/oeps: Opioid Environment Policy Scan (OEPS) Data Warehouse (v2.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5842465