Public Health Data Warehouse Data Sources

The Public Health Data Warehouse has data from over 30 different sources. Many data come from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH). Some sources have person-level records. Other datasets have information about communities. These data are linked together to help analysists find health trends to report on.

Massachusetts Person-Level Data Sets

Name	Source	Brief Description
Acute Care Hospital Case Mix	Center for Health Information and Analysis	Discharges from acute care hospitals
Addiction Treatment	DPH - Bureau of Substance Addiction Services	Substance addiction treatment records
All-Payer Claims Database	Center for Health Information and Analysis	Medical, pharmacy, and dental insurance claims
Birth Certificates	DPH - Registry of Vital Records and Statistics	Certificates of live birth
Cancer Incidence	DPH - Cancer Registry	New cancer diagnoses
Death Certificates & Circumstances of Death	DPH – Registry of Vital Records and Statistics & Office of the Chief Medical Examiner	Certificates of death & Medical Examiner notes on circumstances of deaths
COVID-19 Surveillance	DPH - Bureau of Infectious Diseases and Laboratory Sciences	Confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases
COVID-19 Vaccines	DPH - Bureau of Infectious Diseases and Laboratory Sciences	COVID-19 vaccinations
Early Intervention	DPH – Early Intervention Program	Early Intervention program participants
Family Homelessness	Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities	Emergency Assistance Shelter participants
Fetal Deaths	DPH – Registry of Vital Records and Statistics	Reports of fetal death
Hepatitis A Surveillance	DPH – Bureau of Infectious Diseases and Laboratory Sciences	Confirmed Hepatitis A infections
Hepatitis C Surveillance	DPH – Bureau of Infectious Diseases and Laboratory Sciences	Evidence of Hepatitis C infections
HIV Surveillance (HIV)	DPH – Bureau of Infectious Diseases and Laboratory Sciences	Confirmed HIV infections
Houses of Corrections (jails)	Massachusetts Houses of Corrections (Jails)	Entries and releases from Massachusetts Houses of Corrections (jails)
Houses of Corrections – Opioid Use Disorder	DPH - Bureau of Substance Addiction Services	Medications for opioid use disorder in jails pilot program
Mental Health Treatment	Department of Mental Health	Mental health treatment records
Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD)	Multiple sources	Buprenorphine, Methadone, and Naltrexone
Opioid-Related Overdose	Multiple sources	Non-fatal and fatal opioid overdoses
Postmortem Toxicology	Office of the Chief Medical Examiner via Massachusetts State Police	Toxicology results
Prescription Monitoring Program	DPH – Bureau of Health Professions Licensure	Prescriptions for schedule II through V medications
Prisons	Department of Correction	Entry and release from a Massachusetts prison
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Benefits	Department of Transitional Assistance	SNAP benefit receipt
Veterans’ Benefits	Executive Office of Veterans’ Services	Medical, housing, service-connected disability, and other benefits for veterans
Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program	DPH – Bureau of Family Health and Nutrition	WIC program participants
Worker’s Compensation	Department of Industrial Accidents	Worker’s Compensation claims

Massachusetts Community-Level Data Sets

Data Set	Data Source	Brief Description
Population	American Community Survey	Population files with demographic breakdowns
Population	UMASS Donahue Institute	Population files with demographic breakdowns
Index of Concentration at the Extremes	The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project	Area-based socioeconomic measures
Drug Seizures	The New England High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area	Drug seizures
First Responder Naloxone	DPH - Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution Program	Participation in the first responder naloxone program
Carceral Resource Index	The Action Lab at the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University	A measure comparing municipal expenditures on health and social support services versus carceral systems

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