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Now Available on State Health Compare: 12 Updated and New Measures on Health Insurance Coverage, Cost of Care, Public Health, Health Behaviors and Outcomes, and Quality of Care
Aug. 10, 2020 : SHADAC has published one brand new measure and updated eleven existing data measures with the latest available estimates on our State Health Compare site. The new measure we’ve added is: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) This measure defines the percent of children (age 0-17) who report having experienced none, one, or multiple traumatic events, or adverse experiences, among... Read moreNew Brief details 2020 update for the SHADAC Health Insurance Unit (HIU)
Jul. 31, 2020 : In the years following the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), SHADAC developed and introduced its Health Insurance Unit, or “HIU,” a tool to aid in defining family interrelationships in federal population surveys for the purpose of analyzing health insurance coverage. Now, SHADAC has revised its HIU in response to recent policy shifts, such as changes to... Read moreBlog & News: Updates to Minnesota's Uninsured Profile Data Tool that Identifies and Characterizes the Uninsured Population
Jul. 21, 2020 : After a successful initial release of a new, interactive data tool that provides a way to identify and characterize communities with high uninsurance rates in Minnesota, Dr. Kathleen Call and her team at SHADAC have continued their partnership with the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Minnesota through a just-released update to the profile tool, which incorporates new geography by... Read moreBlog & News: 50-State Infographics Provide an Updated Overview of the Evolving Opioid Crisis
Jul. 15, 2020 : Though still in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the United States continues to grapple with other national public health emergencies, such as the opioid crisis. Indeed, many public health experts have voiced concerns about the potential effects of COVID-19 on mental health and associated issues, including the rates of suicide deaths, alcohol-related deaths, and opioid and related drug... Read moreBlog & News: State-Specific Surveys Encompassing Residents’ COVID-19 Experiences
Jul. 06, 2020 : Updated on June 30, 2020 Introduction and Purpose One of the ways that states are responding to the novel coronavirus pandemic is to gather timely information from residents on their personal experiences and opinions regarding the pandemic. Such real-time information helps states effectively plan for current and impending impacts of this unprecedented public health crisis. The crisis has had... Read moreBlog & News: State Health Compare data offer baseline for measuring pandemic’s impact on suicide, drug overdose death rates
Jul. 02, 2020 : Even as thousands of Americans continue to die each day from COVID-19, many people are beginning to worry about the pandemic’s effects on other of the country’s ongoing public health crises, such as “deaths of despair” caused by suicides, alcohol abuse, and overdoses from opioids and other drugs. Over the past two decades, the United States has seen alarming rises in death rates from these causes... Read moreBlog & News: U.S. Suicide Death Rate Reached Record High in 2018: SHADAC Briefs Examine the Numbers among Subgroups and States
Jun. 16, 2020 : The suicide death rate for the United States reached another historic high in 2018, rising to 14.2 deaths per 100,000 people from 14.0 in 2017, according to new vital statistics data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This newest jump continues a decades-long increase in death rates from suicide in the U.S.—a trend that predates the current COVID-19 pandemic, which... Read moreBlog & News: NHIS: 2.4 million more uninsured working-aged adults in first six months of 2019
May. 28, 2020 : The number of nonelderly adults (age 18-64) without health insurance coverage increased to 27.2 million in the first six months of 2019 (January-June), up from 24.8 million in the same period in 2018. This put the uninsured rate for the first half of 2019 at 13.7%, an increase from 12.5% in the same period in 2018. This finding comes from new health insurance coverage estimates for Q1-Q2 2019... Read moreBlog & News: 90 percent of U.S. adults report increased stress due to pandemic
May. 26, 2020 : Colin Planalp, MPA, Giovann Alarcon, MPP, Lynn A. Blewett, PhD, The coronavirus pandemic and ensuing economic crisis have introduced a new and unique set of conditions that trigger stress in the United States population. Many individuals are concerned about contracting the virus and developing COVID-19 symptoms, worried about job loss, and experiencing other strains caused by stay-at-home... Read moreBlog & News: Understanding the Methodology behind Measuring Coronavirus Impacts with the Census Bureau's New Household Pulse Survey
May. 22, 2020 : The COVID-19 pandemic is having broad-ranging impacts on the health and economic security of Americans across the country, and policymakers, among others, are eager to understand the extent of these impacts and how they vary across states and key subpopulations such as race/ethnicity, given the concerns that historically disadvantaged racial and ethnic minority groups are being disproportionately... Read morePages
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