SHARE has released its February 2010 newlsetter.  Check it out for the latest SHARE news, along with updates about state and federal reform and health reform research.
 
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Estimates of health insurance coverage gathered from the 2009 Minnesota Health Access Survey reveal an increase in the number of Minnesotans without health insurance.

The Minnesota Health Access Survey is a large-scale health insurance survey conducted jointly by MDH and the School of Public health every two years.

View the Press Release

View a fact sheet summarizing the initial results

As the federal health reform discussion moves forward, questions about implementing coverage expansions are becoming increasingly significant.   One particularly critical question is how to identify the population that will be newly eligible for public programs, like Medicaid, in order to facilitate their enrollment.   We can find answers to this question by looking at strategies that have been tested on the ground at the state level.

SHADAC has released its December newlsetter.  Check it out for the latest SHADAC news, announcements, and updates.
View SHADAC's December newsletter.
 

SHADAC’s co-Principal Investigator and Director of Research, Mike Davern, is leaving SHADAC to join the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago as vice president and director of the Public Health Research Department.  He will be based in NORC’s Chicago office. 

SHARE has released its November newsletter.  Check it out for the latest updates on the activities of SHARE and its grantees.
 
View the November SHARE newsletter.

SHADAC has launched a new online tool that allows easy access to health insurance coverage estimates.

Using currently available sources of health insurance data can be time consuming and cumbersome for both policymakers and researchers. In addition, tracking these estimates over time is an outright challenge. A new web-based tool, developed by researchers at SHADAC, allows quick and easy access to health insurance coverage estimates and trends.

The SHADAC Data Center, being released today, allows users to:

We are making some site navigation changes today.  The "Charts & Tables" page is now located under "Publications".

The U.S. Census Bureau has released the public use microdata sample (PUMS) file for the 2008 American Community Survey.  The PUMS is a sample of all the ACS records and the single-year release allows for analysis of all Census-defined geographies with a population of 65,000 or more.

The 2008 PUMS file is located at this link.

The data dictionary is located at this link.