Community Health Data

• City of Worcester home page

• Central MA Regional Public Health Alliance home page

• Central MA Community Health Data Dashboard

• Coming soon- Central Mass Data Commons
• Review the 2014 upate report on the Community Health Improvement Plan, with some measures of progress

• Review the Worcester Department of Public Health's Health of Worcester 2012 presentation, which includes a lot of demographic and health statistics comparing Worcester to the state.

• Learn about Worcester's recent refugees arriving from Bhutan, Burma and Iraq (thanks to Sue Schlotterbeck and the Edward M Kennedy Health Center for these presentations from May 2010)

The UMMS Dept of Family Medicine and Community Health worked in partnership with the Geographic Information experts at Clark University to map patient populations served by our residency sites in 2010. Click here to view:
• Barre Family Health Center patients
• Barre Family Health Center patients with asthma 
• Barre Family Health Center patients with diabetes
• Barre Family Health Center patients with hypertension
• Family Health Center Worcester patients
• Family Health Center Worcester patients with asthma
• Family Health Center Worcester patients with diabetes
• Family Health Center Worcester patients with hypertension
• Fitchburg Community Health Connections patients
• Hahnemann Family Health Center patients
• Hahnemann Family Health Center patients with diabetes
• Hahnemann Family Health Center patients with hypertension

 

Where to explore further

• US Census American Fact-Finder

• USDA Food Environment Atlas

• Centers for Disease Control

• Planet MassCONECT Data Portal (from NCI Cancer Control Planet)
  

• Mass Department of Public Health Population Health Statistics

• RWJF County Health Rankings

• MassCHIP (Massachusetts Community Health Profiles)

• UDS Mapper (Uniform Data Systems)