Coroner/Medical Examiner Services in Pennsylvania
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Description
Provides information about Pennsylvania coroner/medical examiners (C/MEs), including office caseloads, funding, facilities, forensic capacity, vehicles and equipment, and staffing and training resources. Assesses how the opioid epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic affected county C/ME offices in urban and rural areas. Features statistics including deaths from COVID-19 and drug overdose from 2015-2021, with breakdowns by urban and rural counties.
Author(s)
Harry D. Holt, Ramona Stone, Christina VandePol
Date
08/2022
Type
Document
Organization
Center for Rural Pennsylvania
Tagged as
County-by-county data · Illicit drug use · Infectious diseases · Mortality · Prescription drug misuse · Rural-urban differences · Pennsylvania