MLHU - Health Status Resource

Figure 5.4.6: Opioid-Related ED Visits by Urban/Rural

Age standardized rates per 100,000 population, Middlesex-London, 2017

Figure 5.4.6: Opioid-related ED visits by urban/rural
Source: 
Ambulatory Emergency External Cause [2017], Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, IntelliHEALTH ONTARIO, Date Extracted: Jan 24, 2019; Population Estimates [2017], Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, IntelliHEALTH Ontario, Date Extracted: May 22, 2018

Those living in urban populations (146.4 per 100,000) had more than two and a half times the rate of opioid-related emergency department visits compared to those in rural populations (53.3).