We developed a method to evaluate geographic and temporal variations in community-level risk factors and prevalence estimates, and used that method to identify communities in Massachusetts that should be considered high priority communities for smoking interventions.
Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Shaw Building, SH2-230, 55 Lake Ave N, Worcester, MA 01655, USA. wenjun.li@umassmed.edu