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Blog & News: Race/Ethnicity Data in CMS Medicaid (T-MSIS) Analytic Files
Aug. 20, 2020 : As the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis evolves, it has become increasingly clear that vulnerable subpopulations are being disproportionately impacted, both in terms of disease burden and the economic downturn. Medicaid has always played an essential role in providing coverage and care to vulnerable populations, particularly during economic downturns. As a result, the ability to evaluate enrollment... Read moreBlog & News: New Brief Explores State Approaches to Risk Adjustment Based on Social Factors and Strategies for Filling Data Gaps
Aug. 19, 2020 : The role that social factors, such as housing instability, food insecurity, and access to transportation, have in influencing health has been a growing focus in health policy and health care. However, the concept of “social determinants of health” (SDOH), the idea that individuals have unique circumstances that can affect their health care outcomes, is not new to health care. In fact, the... Read moreBlog & News: 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 moreBlog & News: New 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 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 morePages
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