Cost of start-up activities to implement a community-level opioid overdose reduction intervention in the HEALing Communities Study

Table 1 Start-up cost of implementing the communities that HEAL intervention across all sites

Cost Category	KY		MA		NY		OH		Mean		Median
Cost Category	Cost	%	Cost	%	Cost	%	Cost	%	Cost	%	Cost	%
Hiring	$112,602	31	$30,513	10	$9,487	6	$27,471	15	$45,018	18	$28,992	17
Training	$62,260	17	$41,212	14	$65,233	44	$48,461	27	$54,292	22	$55,361	32
Equipment/infrastructure	$161,888	45	$17,126	6	$14,845	10	$47,571	26	$60,357	24	$32,349	18
Dashboard	$21,654	6	$212,408	71	$60,211	40	$57,752	32	$88,006	36	$58,982	34
Total	$358,404	100	$301,259	100	$149,776	100%	$181,255	100	$247,673	100	$175,683	100
Total cost per capita	$0.46	–	$0.67	–	$0.11	–	$0.06	–	$0.32	–	$0.28	–

All costs reported in 2019 dollars. For communities that represent counties (n = 24 of 34), population estimates are from 2020 Bridged-Race Population Estimates retrieved via https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/bridged_race.htm on November 2, 2023. For communities that represent units smaller than counties (n = 10 of 34), population estimates are from 2017–2021 American Community Survey 5-Year Averages retrieved via https://data.census.gov/cedsci on November 2, 2023

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