The Massachusetts Report Card

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The Massachusetts Report Card

• Proposed Production Plan
• October 5, 2009

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A Plan for Producing the Report Card Part I -
Data Tables and Explanatory Text

• Phase I
• Review existing reports by DPH and other health
  agencies to look for disparities indicators
• Train intern or staff to explore available data
  from MassCHIP
• ID gaps between available data and mock-up
• Phase II
• Assess resources necessary to collect additional
  data IDs in gap analysis
• Phase III
• Specify technical specs
• Establish principles for indicator inclusion /
  exclusion
• Phase IV
• Produce Word Document report

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A Plan for Producing the Report Card Part II
Supplementary Material

• Phase I
• Draft sections of the report as outlined in the
  Mock-up that provide supplementary background
  material such as definition and calculation of
  disparities, discussion of between and within
  disparities, and socioeconomic influences.
• Phase II
• Finalized text

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A Plan for Producing the Report Card Resources
and Timeline

• Data Tables
• No additional funding is requested at this time.
  
• One or more interns from local colleges will be
  recruited
• The work will be co-managed by Dr. Weissman,
  Georgia Simpson May, and Kristin Golden, DPH
  Director of Policy Planning, as project
  director. An additional person or persons from
  DPH with epidemiological skills will work with
  the production team on the technical aspects of
  indicator specification, generation, and
  reporting.
• The work will be fit in among other DPH
  priorities. The data should be available in
  final format by June 2010. Finishing the report
  sooner will require re-assessing current DPH
  priorities
• Supplementary Material
• No additional funding is requested at this time.
  
• Dr. Weissman will take the lead on producing
  these chapters.
• One or more interns from local colleges will be
  recruited to help
• The chapters should be available in draft format
  by December 2009 and final format by March 2010

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Notable Findings from Preliminary Diabetes
Mock-Up

• Compared with non-Hispanic Whites, Blacks and
  Latinos
• suffer from higher rates of diabetes, and rates
  are highest for low income households
• die more often from diabetes
• smoke at about the same rate
• are admitted to ERs and hospitals more often