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State and Federal Relief Prevented Deep Backslide in Health Care Affordability in California in 2020 (CHCF Cross Post)
May. 18, 2022 : The following content is cross-posted from California Health Care Foundation. It was first published on May 18, 2022. Author: Colin Planalp, Research Fellow, SHADAC In 2020, the start of the COVID-19 pandemic meant the imposition of incredible burdens on every corner of US society, particularly the health care system and the people it serves. There were well-founded fears that the pandemic... Read more2021 NHIS Full-Year Health Insurance Estimates Early Release: Coverage Rates Remain Stable Overall, Changes Visible across Demographic Groups
May. 10, 2022 : The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released health insurance coverage estimates for 2021 from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) as part of the NHIS Early Release Program. The estimates captured in this report are some of the first available coverage estimates for 2021 from a federal survey. National-level estimates are available by breakdowns including age, sex, poverty... Read moreBlog & News: SHADAC Advocates a Data-based Approach to Advancing Medicaid and CHIP Access Monitoring Plan (Response to CMS Request for Information)
Apr. 29, 2022 : On February 17, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a request for information (RFI) regarding access to coverage and care in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). SHADAC researchers focused our response on Objective 4: Question 1, which asked researchers to consider how CMS might develop a stronger Medicaid and CHIP access... Read moreBlog & News: Minnesota’s uninsured rate hit historic low in 2021 but racial disparities increased (Minnesota Department of Health Cross Post)
Apr. 14, 2022 : Today, the Health Economics Program (HEP) of the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) released results from the 2021 Minnesota Health Access Survey (MNHA) - a biennial state-based population survey that collects information on how many people in Minnesota have health insurance and how easy... Read moreBlog & News: Understanding the Undercount of Medicaid Enrollees in the 2020 Current Population Survey Health Insurance Coverage Data
Apr. 05, 2022 : Studies have long shown that surveys underestimate the number of people enrolled in Medicaid, and that the extent of this “undercount” varies across surveys and states. SHADAC researchers have made significant contributions in this area, and the extent to which the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC) undercounts Medicaid is one of the reasons we typically... Read moreBlog & News: Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the U.S. has Reached a Plateau: Evidence from the Household Pulse Survey
Apr. 01, 2022 : Previous analysis produced by SHADAC using data from the Household Pulse Survey (HPS) showed promising evidence of a reduction in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy during the first three months of 2021. However, though this report highlighted an overall decline in hesitancy, it also showed disparities in the level of hesitancy between demographic and socioeconomic groups. In an effort to continually... Read moreBlog & News: Six Measures on SHADAC’s State Health Compare Now Updated to Include Pandemic-era Data for Health Behaviors and Outcomes
Mar. 18, 2022 : As part of our commitment to releasing relevant and timely state-level data, estimates for six measures on SHADAC’s State Health Compare web tool have recently been updated with data from the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 and 2021. Data for each of these measures is drawn from a variety of different data sources, which are detailed in the notes below. Measures that have been... Read moreBlog & News: 2020 U.S. alcohol-involved deaths climbed by 26.6%, and drug overdose deaths by 30.6%
Feb. 16, 2022 : Size of alcohol, drug overdose death increases in first pandemic year were unparalleled With the recent release of 2020 mortality data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), we now know that fears that the pandemic could result in increased drug and alcohol deaths were well-founded. In just a single year, the U.S. alcohol-involved death rate increased 26.6%, and drug... Read moreBlog & News: 2020 NHIS: State vs National Estimates of Health Insurance Coverage
Feb. 15, 2022 : The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) recently released a National Health Statistics Report, which presents state-level estimates of health insurance coverage using data from the 2020 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). The report provides estimates by subcategories of state Medicaid expansion status, urbanization level, and expanded region based on data from all 50 states and... Read moreBlog & News: State Health Compare: State-Level Data Resources on Measures of Health Equity (Part Two - Health Behaviors, Health Outcomes, Social and Economic Factors)
Feb. 09, 2022 : Health equity and social determinants of health (SDOH) are rapidly growing fields of public health research. SHADAC researchers believe that making strides toward achieving health equity depends equally on better understanding health disparities as well as on making concerted, measurable efforts toward reducing avoidable differences in populations’ health outcomes. This blog, the second in a... Read morePages
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