May. 26, 2023:Estimates for five measures of health care access, affordability, and use have now been updated on SHADAC’s State Health Compare. One new measure, Had Telehealth Visit, has also been added to State Health Compare. The new and updated measures are all produced using data from the National...Read More
May. 11, 2023:Medicaid is a vital source of coverage for the almost four million justice-involved individuals living in the community – individuals who are disproportionately poor and people of color. Upon release from prison or jail, many of these individuals face significant obstacles navigating and accessing...Read More
Apr. 18, 2023:The terms "FPG" and "FPL" are often used interchangeably, but they are not actually the same thing; there are, in fact, important functional differences between the two concepts.
The federal poverty level (FPL) is the income threshold below which a “family,” and every...Read More
Apr. 14, 2023:This report provides an overview of our topic areas, technical expertise, and partnerships as well as a glimpse into some of the work done at SHADAC in 2022. Click the report below to flip through our 2022 Annual Report.
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Apr. 13, 2023:Introduction
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic underscored the importance of telehealth services to people across the U.S. and the crucial role of broadband internet access in providing those services. Telehealth continues to be a popular and often necessary way for patients to access care, and...Read More
Apr. 05, 2023:SHADAC hosted a one-hour webinar on Wednesday, April 5th to discuss the rising Medicaid undercount. With many states and stakeholders eager to understand the topic further, this webinar provided an overview of issues related to the Medicaid undercount along with relevant...Read More
Mar. 30, 2023:The resources below were created by SHADAC with essential guidance from the advisory board of MNsure navigators and policymakers. These tools can be used for community-level equity-focused work and advocacy by informing strategic plans, partnership development, assessment of community needs, and...Read More
Mar. 28, 2023:
Following the release of the 2021 U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey 5-year data file (2017–2021), SHADAC has made important updates to the Minnesota Community and Uninsured Profile resource to incorporate an...Read More
Mar. 23, 2023:
On January 26, 2023, the Interagency Technical Working Group on Race and Ethnicity Standards released an initial set of recommended revisions to the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Statistical Policy Directive No. 15: Standards for Maintaining, Collecting,...Read More
Mar. 22, 2023:Authors: Natalie Mac Arthur, Jeremy Duval, Kathleen Call
More than one-third of lesbian/gay adults in Minnesota reported experiencing discrimination from health care providers based on their sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Mar. 15, 2023:Originally published December 2016.
Updated March 2023 by SHADAC Research Assistant Adey Fentaw.
This technical brief provides guidance on how to run tests for statistically significant differences using estimates and their associated margins of error from SHADAC’s State Health Compare web tool...Read More
Mar. 10, 2023:Project Overview
People who experience health inequities based on race, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, immigration status, and other factors, are a longstanding and pervasive problem that is deeply rooted in discrimination and structural racism. The Medicaid program, through...Read More
Feb. 27, 2023:Each year, SHADAC covers the releases of health insurance coverage data from major federal surveys such as the American Community Survey (ACS) and Current Population Survey (CPS), both of which are overseen by the U.S. Census Bureau.1 Not only do these data provide an understanding of trends...Read More
Feb. 21, 2023:.
How the CDC’s recent shift will impact calculations for birth and death rates
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently changed the population estimates they use to calculate population-level rates in...Read More
Feb. 15, 2023:Twenty-five years ago, a watershed study on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) first established a relationship between childhood trauma and long-term health impacts that can last well into adulthood.1 Since then, numerous related studies have corroborated the association between ACEs and...Read More
Feb. 15, 2023:Authors: Colin Planalp, MPA and Andrea Stewart, MA
Drawing on data from the National Survey of Children’s Health, this brief investigates the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and disparities in ACEs exposure by children’s race, family income...Read More
Feb. 09, 2023:
The following content is cross-posted from State Health & Value Strategies.
Original publication date: February 9, 2023.
Authors: Elizabeth Lukanen, Emily Zylla, SHADAC
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act implemented a Medicaid continuous enrollment requirement which...Read More
Feb. 01, 2023:Research has consistently shown that surveys that measure health insurance coverage underestimate the number of people enrolled in Medicaid; this is known as the “Medicaid undercount.” SHADAC researchers have long monitored and investigated the magnitude, causes, and effects of the Medicaid...Read More
Jan. 30, 2023:Research has consistently shown that health insurance coverage surveys underestimate the number of people enrolled in Medicaid and the extent of this “Medicaid undercount” varies greatly across surveys and states. Among these surveys that measure health insurance coverage, the American...Read More
Jan. 24, 2023:This journal article was originally published in Volume 48, Issue 1 of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (JHPPL).
Authors: Lynn A. Blewett, PhD, MPA, Natalie Schwehr Mac Arthur, PhD, MAc, and James Campbell
SHADAC researchers recently published an article...Read More