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Blog & News: COVID-19 Vaccination Rates: State-level and Subpopulation Evidence from the Household Pulse Survey (Update: Jan 20 to Feb 1)
Feb. 11, 2021 : Newly available COVID-19 vaccines promise to help protect individual Americans against infection and eventually provide population-level herd immunity. However, while the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations has picked up somewhat in recent weeks, the overall rollout thus far has remained somewhat slow and inconsistent. The initial groups prioritized for vaccination were health care workers on the front... Read moreBlog & News: Eight Updated Measures are Now Available on SHADAC’s State Health Compare
Feb. 02, 2021 : Estimates for a number of measures from several categories (Cost of Care, Health Behaviors, Health Outcomes, Public Health, Quality of Care, and Social and Economic Factors) have recently been updated on SHADAC’s State Health Compare web tool. Data for each of these measures is drawn from a variety of differing surveys. Measures that have been updated include: Child... Read moreBlog & News: COVID-19 Vaccination Rates: New State-level and Subpopulation Evidence from the Household Pulse Survey (Jan 6 to Jan 18)
Jan. 29, 2021 : Newly available COVID-19 vaccines promise to help protect individual Americans against infection and eventually provide population-level herd immunity. However, the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines thus far—largely delegated to the states—has been slow and inconsistent. The initial groups prioritized for vaccination were health care workers on the front lines of the pandemic and nursing facility... Read morePresentations: SHADAC Webinar - Anticipating COVID-19 Vaccination Challenges through Flu Vaccination Patterns (February 4)
Jan. 12, 2021 : 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... Read moreBlog & News: 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 : 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... Read moreBlog & News: Spotlight on Health Behaviors: Adult Who Forgo Needed Medical Care and Adults Who Have No Personal Doctor
Dec. 21, 2020 : 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—... Read moreBlog & News: Two New Changes to the Child Vaccinations Measure on SHADAC’s State Health Compare
Dec. 10, 2020 : 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,... Read moreBlog & News: State Health Compare Users Can Now Explore Unemployment by Race/Ethnicity
Nov. 18, 2020 : 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... Read morePages
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