- Population Health Information Tool (PHIT)

Selected chronic disease small area estimates data is now available in the Massachusetts Health Data Tool for 2018-2022. These data come from advanced analytic work led by Vicki Nielsen at the Department of Public Health in collaboration with the Harvard Department of Population Medicine and Commonwealth Informatics using data from MDPHnet.
Users can access the prevalence of five different chronic diseases, including:
- Asthma
- Diabetes
- Hypertension
- Obesity
- Smoking
Users can stratify data by various dimensions and intersections, including:
- Race and Hispanic ethnicity
- Sex
- Age group
- Race and Hispanic Ethnicity and by Sex
- Sex and by Age Group
- Age Group and by Race and Hispanic ethnicity