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Minnesota Medicaid Enrollment Grew More than the U.S. Average during COVID-19
Jul. 20, 2021 : The Minnesota Medicaid program has served as an important safety net program during the COVID-19 crisis. As a countercyclical program, Medicaid enrollment/spending increases when the economy is in decline (such as during a pandemic or a recession), as employer-sponsored insurance decreases and the low-income population increases.1 The additional enrollment of 166,364 individuals in Minnesota... Read moreCOVID-19 Vaccination Rates: State-level and Subpopulation Evidence from the Household Pulse Survey
Jul. 19, 2021 : Update 6: June 9 to June 21 The COVID-19 vaccines promise to help protect individual Americans against infection and eventually provide population-level herd immunity. After several months of rolling out the various one and two-shot COVID-19 vaccines, which have included hiccups from the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, vaccination rates continue to increase at a slow but steady pace. Although... Read moreBlog & News: Drug overdose deaths grew by almost 30 percent in 2020
Jul. 15, 2021 : Fentanyl- and methamphetamine-type drugs surged roughly 50 percent in 12 months Drug overdose deaths surged in the United States during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing nearly 30 percent in just 12 months. Provisional data recently published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that more than 92,000 people died of drug overdoses in 2020—... Read moreBlog & News: New Study Shows Heightened Mental Health Burdens for Young Adults, Adults with Lower Incomes or Lower Education Levels, and Adults who Experienced Income Loss during the COVID Pandemic
Jul. 01, 2021 : As rates of COVID vaccination increase around the world and the nation, attention is beginning to turn toward addressing more of the non-physical impacts and effects of the virus, such as the mental health burdens borne by large segments of the population.1 In a new issue brief released this week, SHADAC researchers used the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey to study the relationship... Read moreBlog & News: Pandemic drinking may exacerbate upward-trending alcohol deaths
Jun. 14, 2021 : Even before 2020, alcohol-involved deaths reached a modern record Considering the well-deserved attention paid to the opioid crisis in recent years, few people might guess that rates of alcohol-involved deaths were as high as or higher than opioid overdose death rates in nearly half of states (Figure 1).1 Like the opioid crisis, the trend in alcohol-involved deaths is also worsening,... Read moreBlog & News: SHADAC at the 2021 Virtual AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM)
Jun. 11, 2021 : The 2021 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) is taking place virtually this week from June 14-17. Researcher and State Health Compare manager Robert Hest will be presenting on behalf of SHADAC at the national conference. His presentations include: Trends in Health Insurance Coverage during the COVID-19 Pandemic: New Monthly Evidence from the Household Pulse Survey -... Read moreBlog & News: 5 States and DC Led the Pack for Per-Capita State Public Health Funding over Past Decade: New Brief Explores Public Health Funding Estimates on State Health Compare
Jun. 08, 2021 : As states have faced ongoing pressure to respond to the evolving COVID-19 crisis, state public health funding levels have come under scrutiny. Funding for public health indicates not only the extent to which a state prioritizes public health infrastructure but also the state’s preparedness for health emergencies like COVID-19. New data collected by the Trust for America’s Health show... Read moreResources: Measuring Coronavirus Impacts with the Census Bureau's New Household Pulse Survey: Utilizing the Data and Understanding the Methodology
Jun. 05, 2021 : 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 moreBlog & News: Collecting Race, Ethnicity, and Language (REL) Data on Medicaid Applications: 50-State Review Shows Wide Variation in How States Gather this Information
May. 25, 2021 : Medicaid is a vital source of health insurance coverage for low-income children, adults, and individuals with disabilities; however, many individuals in Medicaid experience significant health disparities. An essential first step in any effort to reduce health disparities and address health equity in Medicaid is to collect and monitor data on disparities by race, ethnicity, and language.... Read moreBlog & News: Vaccine Hesitancy Decreased During the First Three Months of the Year: New Evidence from the Household Pulse Survey
May. 14, 2021 : Evidence shows that marginalized groups such as individuals with lower-incomes and people of color are in general less likely to receive vaccinations.i Previous research from SHADAC using the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey (HPS) confirms that this pattern holds true with the COVID-19 vaccine as well.ii] Understanding why certain subpopulations are not receiving COVID-19 vaccines... Read morePages
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