Blog & News

How does the U.S. measure child vaccinations? This blog explains the development and data collection methods of the National Immunization Survey (NIS), how users can access the data, and provides a brief overview of the latest NIS data. Read More

The Minnesota Community and Uninsured Profile allows states, health insurance navigators, and researchers to easily access important and comparable information about their communities. Learn more about using the profile tool and its accompanying map in this blog. Read More

This post provides infographics that describe unaffordable rents data for the U.S. overall and for four geographically diverse states (Florida, Nevada, North Dakota, and Vermont) with varying levels of unaffordable rents. Read More

Access to affordable and stable housing is a key driver of health. In this blog, SHADAC researchers explore and analyze the impact of unaffordable rent in the United States by state, disability status, income level, and more using SHADAC’s data tool, State Health Compare. Read More

The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the importance of telehealth services and the crucial role of broadband internet subscriptions in making those services possible. In this blog, we look at variation in states’ progress on improving the share of households with home broadband internet services… Read More

We are developing workgroups for data professionals to connect, strategize, and share knowledge related to filling critical health data gaps. We want your input to inform and shape these workgroups: Join our virtual meeting on June 23rd to provide feedback and learn more. Read More

As part of the EMERGE Initiative, SSRS conducted a survey better understand the impacts of changes to U.S. federal statistical agencies on data users in various industries and sectors, with SHADAC providing advisory support. A report of survey results has just been released: learn more in this blog. Read More

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth use has exploded. But what is telehealth? And what is telehealth vs telemedicine vs telecare? We explain the differences in this blog, along with discussion of the history of telehealth and the impact of COVID-19. Read More

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has released the first health insurance coverage estimates for 2025 from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) as part of the NHIS Early Release Program. In this blog, our staff review some key coverage-related findings and changes. Read More

SHADAC consistently updates measures on our data tool, State Health Compare (SHC), in order to provide users with the most up-to-date available data. In this post, we review the health data sets and measures that have been recently updated with data from the ACS, CPS, BRFSS, and more. Read More