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Upcoming SHADAC Webinar - Anticipating COVID-19 Vaccination Challenges through Flu Vaccination Patterns (February 4th)
Jan. 12, 2021
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Date: Thursday, February 4, 2021 Time: 1:00 PM Central Time / 2:00 PM Eastern Time Across the country, states have begun the first stages of their campaigns to vaccinate people against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). However, early troubles have highlighted the challenges to such a massive endeavor, as pointed out in recent articles from the New York Times and the Washington Post....
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New Brief Examines Flu Vaccine Patterns as a Proxy for COVID – Anticipating and Addressing Coronavirus Vaccination Campaign Challenges at the National and State Level
Jan. 06, 2021
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Within just a year, the U.S. saw both the devastating arrival of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as well as the rapid innovation by researchers and scientists that produced multiple vaccines in response to this disease. In the final month of 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of two such vaccinations developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna marked a significant step...
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Spotlight on Health Behaviors: Adult Who Forgo Needed Medical Care and Adults Who Have No Personal Doctor
Dec. 21, 2020
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Prior to the arrival of the novel coronavirus, much of American consumer health care concerns surrounded rising costs of care. With health care spending rising a reported 4.6 percent in 2018 and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of the Actuary projecting an average annual increase of 5.4 percent for 2019 to hit a record $3.82 trillion or around $11,559 per person—...
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Two New Changes to the Child Vaccinations Measure on SHADAC’s State Health Compare
Dec. 10, 2020
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SHADAC is making two modifications to its State Health Compare (SHC) Child Vaccinations measure in response to changes in how the data source for this measure (the National Immunization Survey-Child [NIS]) reports estimates. The NIS recently transitioned to reporting estimates by child birth year (e.g., the percent of children born in 2015 who had received the recommended vaccines). Previously,...
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State Health Compare Users Can Now Explore Unemployment by Race/Ethnicity
Nov. 18, 2020
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SHADAC has updated our State Health Compare online data tool to provide estimates of unemployment according to race and ethnicity. Previously, State Health Compare users could analyze unemployment nationwide and at the state level for years 2000 to 2019, but subgroup analyses were not possible. Now, users can explore State Health Compare’s unemployment estimates, which come from the federal...
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Update to SHADAC’s Minnesota Uninsured Profile Tool Features Customized Legislative District Infographics Aimed at Addressing Disparities
Nov. 12, 2020
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Our research team at SHADAC has continued its partnership with the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Minnesota to complete a new tool that provides critical information on the uninsured populations in Minnesota at the legislative district level. Using the most up-to-date estimates available from the United States Census Bureau, (2014-2018 American Community Survey, 5-year estimates) this...
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Minnesota and U.S. Uninsurance Rates Grew in Years Leading up to Pandemic
Oct. 27, 2020
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Children’s uninsurance rate held steady recently, while non-elderly adults’ rate increased in 2019 For the third consecutive year, the United States' uninsurance rate increased significantly, reaching 9.2 percent in 2019, or roughly 27.9 million people. The uninsurance rate in Minnesota also increased significantly to 4.9 percent in 2019—a total of more than 270,000 people. While those...
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November 10th Webinar - "Overdose Crisis in Transition: Changing Trends in a Widening Drug Death Epidemic"
Oct. 19, 2020
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For nearly two decades, the United States has experienced a growing epidemic of drug overdose deaths. But even by standards of the rapidly evolving opioid crisis, mortality data from 2018 illustrate a stark transformation: While the U.S. recorded rare declines in death rates from prescription opioids and heroin, overdose deaths from synthetic opioids continued their rise. The year also...
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State-Specific Surveys Encompassing Residents’ COVID-19 Experiences
Oct. 09, 2020
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Updated on October 9, 2020 Introduction and Purpose One of the ways that states are responding to the novel coronavirus epidemic 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...
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October 21st Webinar - Rising Suicide Rates: Examining Trends and Variations through State-level Data
Oct. 08, 2020
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Over the past two decades, the rise in suicide death rates has continued along an accelerating climb. According to new vital statistics data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United States suicide rate reached another historic high of 14.2 per 100,000 people in 2018, up from 14.0 in the previous year. This increase in...
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