Health and Social Services

DPH conducted a Capacity Assessment of local public health in the Fall of 2022 to establish a baseline for achieving the Performance Standards.

Demographic characteristics of children/youth subject to a Child Requiring Assistance petition. A CRA case is one where parents, guardians, or school officials ask the court to help supervise a child. This data is compiled and updated annually by the Massachusetts Trial Court Department of Research and Planning.

Find data on childhood lead poisoning in Massachusetts. This dataset contains record-level pediatric blood lead testing data for children in Massachusetts.

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Read reports on Community Service Agencies, Mobile Crisis Intervention teams, service use, Wraparound Fidelity Index, System of Care Practice Reviews, and Massachusetts Practice Reviews.

Find chronic disease hospitalization data in Massachusetts. These data includes stroke, mental health, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer hospitalizations.

The conditions in which people live lead some populations to be inequitably impacted by chronic diseases.

Find data on health behaviors in Massachusetts. This dataset includes percentages of Massachusetts adults with some chronic diseases or risk behavior. Percentages are given for specific counties, towns, and statewide. Town values are model-generated estimates using information from multiple datasets including Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data (2012 – 2014) and census data.

Find Massachusetts health data by community, county, and region, including population demograhics. Build custom data reports with over 100 health and social determinants of health data indicators and explore over 28,000 current and historical data layers in the map room.

On March 11, 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) was signed into law. This law provides resources through the Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (CLFRF) to local governments to respond to the public health emergency caused by the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19).