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Report/Brief: Health Equity Measurement: Considerations for Selecting a Benchmark
Sep. 27, 2023: The following content is cross-posted from State Health & Value Strategies. The Issue As states look to advance health equity, they need ways to measure whether their efforts result in improvements. Benchmarking can be used to identify health disparities and establish...Read MorePresentation: UMN Opioid Advisory Task Force
Sep. 25, 2023: On Thursday, September 21, SHADAC Senior Research Fellow Colin Planalp presented a data-focused look at the national opioid crisis during a University of Minnesota Opioid Advisory Task Force forum. Colin presented his recent findings about overdoses related to four different drug categories -...Read MoreBlog: Tracking Health Insurance Coverage During the Unwinding: Monthly Data from the Household Pulse Survey
Sep. 20, 2023: This update uses data from the September release of the Household Pulse Survey, collected from August 23 – September 4, 2023. Introduction The unwinding of the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement represents the largest nationwide coverage transition since the Affordable Care...Read MoreBlog: 2022 ACS: Declining Uninsured Rates for the U.S. and States are Supported by Private and Public Coverage Increases
Sep. 14, 2023: Related Releases and Materials New Blog and Infographic CPS ASEC: 2022 National Health Insurance Coverage Estimates Show Falling Rates of Uninsurance and Direct-Purchase Coverage Upcoming Webinar An Annual...Read MoreBlog: CPS ASEC: 2022 National Health Insurance Coverage Estimates Show Falling Rates of Uninsurance and Direct-Purchase Coverage (Infographic)
Sep. 12, 2023: Related Releases and Materials New blog and interactive maps 2022 ACS: Declining Uninsured Rates for the U.S. and States are Supported by Private and Public Coverage Increases Upcoming Webinar An...Read MoreReport/Brief: Telehealth Use and Experiences Among California Adults (CHCF Brief)
Sep. 12, 2023: The following content is cross-posted from the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF). Author: Lacey Hartman, Senior Research Fellow, State Health Access Data Assistance Center California’s Medi-Cal program is leveraging telehealth to meet patient needs. Many...Read MoreBlog: State-Based Marketplace Transition Data During the Unwinding (Cross-Post)
Sep. 09, 2023: The following content is cross-posted from State Health & Value Strategies. Authors: Elizabeth Lukanen, Emily Zylla, and Lindsey Theis, SHADAC This expert perspective (EP) will be updated by SHADAC experts as additional dashboards/reports go live. Please visit the State Health...Read MoreBlog: State Dashboards to Monitor the Unwinding of the Medicaid Continuous Coverage Requirement (Cross-Post)
Sep. 09, 2023: The following content is cross-posted from State Health & Value Strategies. Authors: Elizabeth Lukanen, Emily Zylla, and Lindsey Theis, SHADAC This expert perspective (EP) will be updated by SHADAC experts as additional dashboards/reports go live. Please visit the State Health...Read MorePresentation: An Annual Conversation with the U.S. Census Bureau: 2022 Health Insurance Coverage Estimates from the ACS and CPS
Sep. 07, 2023: On Thursday, September 28th at 1:00 PM CST, SHADAC hosted a webinar covering the release of new 2022 health insurance coverage estimates from two key, large-scale federal data sources: The American Community Survey (ACS) and the Current Population Survey (CPS)....Read MoreBlog: Exploring Cost and Coverage Rates in Employer-Sponsored Insurance (Infographic)
Sep. 05, 2023: Throughout the United States, a majority of Americans and their families receive health insurance coverage through their employer. In 2021, the number of people covered by this type of coverage—known as employer-sponsored insurance or ESI—exceeded 169 million. While a fuller picture of the coverage...Read MoreBlog: New State Health Compare estimates on Adverse Childhood Experiences aim to improve understanding of health inequities
Aug. 28, 2023: SHADAC has posted updated estimates of the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) to State Health Compare. These new estimates combine six years of data from the National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) to enable more precise and granular estimates for smaller racial and ethnic...Read MoreBlog: Supporting Families: Associations between Neighborhood Support and Child Health Outcomes
Aug. 24, 2023: Background The circumstances of peoples’ lives have great influence over their health, often much more than genetics or access to health care—a concept known as “social determinants of health.” One such social determinant is social capital, which includes the networks of relationships that...Read MoreReport/Brief: Four Methods for Calculating Income as a Percent of the Federal Poverty Guidelines (FPG) in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
Aug. 17, 2023: This updated SHADAC brief delves into four common methods for calculating income as a percent of the Federal Poverty Guidelines (FPG) using 2021 estimates from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). The BRFSS...Read MoreBlog: Using Surveys to Monitor Coverage Transitions During the Unwinding of the Medicaid Continuous Coverage Requirement (Cross-Post)
Aug. 09, 2023: . The following content is cross-posted from State Health & Value Strategies. Authors: Elizabeth Lukanen and Colin Planalp, SHADAC, and Kevin Caudill, GMMB The unwinding of the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement represents the largest nationwide coverage transition...Read MoreBlog: SHADAC's Lynn Blewett Featured on 'Hospitals in Focus' Podcast
Aug. 03, 2023: SHADAC Director Dr. Lynn Blewett was recently invited to join Federation of American Hospitals CEO and President Chip Kahn as a guest on his podcast Hospitals in Focus to share her thoughts on the impacts of the unwinding of the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement. The “unwinding” is...Read MoreBlog: Minnesota’s COVID-19 vaccine campaign left vulnerable groups with lagging rates
Aug. 02, 2023: Two years after COVID-19 shots became available, demographic disparities in vaccination rates were stark Health inequities are nothing new in Minnesota, but the pandemic placed them in a new light. Numerous studies have reported disparities in how COVID-19 affects many vulnerable...Read MoreReport/Brief: Disparities in Minnesota’s COVID-19 Vaccination Rates
Aug. 02, 2023: A new SHADAC issue brief found stark disparities not only in the share of subpopulations that have been immunized against COVID-19 in Minnesota, but also in the length of time it took vaccines to reach most people in these different groups. For instance, by the end of 2022, 80 percent of...Read MorePresentation: Data to Monitor the Unwinding of the Medicaid Continuous Coverage Requirement
Jul. 30, 2023: On July 27, 2023, SHADAC Deputy Director Elizabeth Lukanen presented to the Protecting Immigrant Families Coalition, Medicaid Unwinding Task Force. This presentation included a brief overview of the potential coverage impacts of the unwinding of the Medicaid continuous coverage...Read MoreReport/Brief: SHADAC's 2020 Health Insurance Unit and Updated Defining Families Issue Brief
Jul. 20, 2023: In 2012, SHADAC created and released the SHADAC “Health Insurance Unit,” or “HIU,” to aid researchers in reconciling the differences between the way that a “family” is defined in federal surveys (such as the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey [ACS] or Current Population Survey [CPS])...Read MoreBlog: Interventions Likely Prevented Childhood Poverty from Rising During the Pandemic
Jul. 20, 2023: Research has shown that since the start of the COVID-19 public health crisis, aggressive government interventions, aimed at reducing broader economic fallout as well as individual-level hardship, have been largely sucessful.1 To preempt a potential increase in poverty due to pandemic-...Read MorePages
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