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Blog & News: NHIS: Early Release Estimates for January-June 2021 Show Continued Significant Changes in Public and Private Coverage across All Groups
Nov. 22, 2021 : A report of health insurance coverage estimates for the first half of 2021 (January to June) from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) has just been released by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) as part of the NHIS Early Release Program. Comparing the 2021 estimates to the same time period in 2020 showed broadly similar overall trends by coverage type: The... Read moreBlog & News: Monitoring Childhood Poverty during and after COVID-19
Nov. 16, 2021 : Childhood poverty has been brought to the forefront during the COVID-19 pandemic, with pandemic restrictions making it harder for families with low incomes to meet the needs of their children.1 As schools switched to distance learning, many children from low-income households faced new or heightened food insecurity without access to free and reduced-price lunches at school sites. Remote... Read moreBlog & News: U.S. Census Bureau Analytic Report Shows Significant Non-Response Bias in the 2020 American Community Survey
Nov. 11, 2021 : The U.S. Census Bureau recently released an analytical report that details and evaluates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on data collection and data quality in the 2020 American Community Survey (ACS) and provides evidence supporting its decision to release the 2020 ACS 1-Year estimates and public use microdata on an “experimental,” rather than official basis. This blog post highlights... Read moreBlog & News: Brief: Strategies to Increase Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond
Oct. 25, 2021 : Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have been demonstrably far-ranging, including changes to substance use-related behaviors.1 Evidence indicates that opioid use disorders (OUDs), overdoses, and overdose deaths grew as a result of COVID-19-related isolation and economic anxiety, and mortality data indicate that opioid overdose deaths, in particular, reached record levels in 2020. SHADAC... Read moreBlog & News: 2021 NHIS Early Release: Stable uninsured rate paired with increase in public coverage and decrease in private coverage
Oct. 14, 2021 : The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has released quarterly estimates of health insurance coverage from January 2020-March 2021 from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) as part of the NHIS Early Release Program. These are some of the first estimates of health insurance coverage during 2021 from a major, federal government survey. This post compares uninsurance, private... Read moreBlog & News: A New Brief Examines the Collection of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Data at the Federal Level and in Medicaid
Oct. 12, 2021 : Thirteen million people identify as part of a sexual or gender minority (SGM) in the United States, with an estimated 1.17 million who have Medicaid as their primary source of health insurance coverage.[1],[2] While the COVID crisis shed a unique light on the need for more equitable health data collection across all populations, one area in which efforts are still falling short is sexual... Read moreBlog & News: Now Available on State Health Compare: Special 2020-Only Health Insurance Coverage Measure and 2020 Updates to Several BRFSS Measures
Oct. 06, 2021 : As has been previously noted, estimates for our Health Insurance Coverage Type measure will this year come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS) Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC), rather than the American Community Survey (ACS), due to a number of impacts on survey data and data collections efforts attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic. In light of this... Read moreBlog & News: Update to SHADAC’s Minnesota Uninsured Legislative District Infographics Aims to Assist in Addressing Coverage Disparities
Sep. 22, 2021 : Our research team at SHADAC has continued its partnership with the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Minnesota to refresh a 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, (2015-2019 American Community Survey, 5-year estimates) this... Read morePages
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