State Burden Toolkit

The Diabetes State Burden Toolkit is an interactive application that presents health, economic, and mortality burden of diabetes in your state. Get started by selecting a Measure from the drop down lists for the module of interest below.

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Diabetes Health Burden

This section of the Burden Toolkit reports the health burden of diabetes in your state and consists of diabetes prevalence, diabetes incidence, and diabetes-associated conditions. The statistics for diabetes-associated conditions are based on self-reported data, hospitalization data, and Medicare data. For each condition, the toolkit reports the rate of the condition among people with diabetes and the number of cases attributable to diabetes.

Diabetes Economic Burden

This section of the Burden Toolkit reports the economic burden of diabetes in your state and consists of medical (direct) costs, indirect costs, and costs from the perspective of State Medicaid Programs, private insurers, and employers.

Diabetes Mortality

This section of the Burden Toolkit reports estimated diabetes mortality statistics in your state for people aged 15 years or older. This data consists of the number of deaths, rate of deaths per 100,000 people, years of potential life lost, and quality-adjusted life years.