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Blog: 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)...Read MoreReport/Brief: Anticipating COVID-19 Vaccination Challenges through Flu Vaccination Patterns
Jan. 06, 2021: A new issue brief from SHADAC researchers, funded by the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), examines flu vaccination rates as the closest possible analog to understanding how the implementation of a widespread coronavirus vaccination campaign will unfold. Using data from the U.S. Centers...Read MoreBlog: 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...Read MoreBlog: 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 (...Read MoreBlog: 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....Read MoreBlog: Update to SHADAC’s Minnesota Uninsured Profile Tool Features Customized Legislative District Infographics Aimed at Addressing Disparities
Nov. 12, 2020: Our research team at SHADAC has continued its partnership with the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Minnesota to complete a new 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...Read MoreBlog: Minnesota and U.S. Uninsurance Rates Grew in Years Leading up to Pandemic
Oct. 27, 2020: Children’s uninsurance rate held steady recently, while non-elderly adults’ rate increased in 2019 For the third consecutive year, the United States' uninsurance rate increased significantly, reaching 9.2 percent in 2019, or roughly 27.9 million people. The uninsurance rate in Minnesota also...Read MorePresentation: November 10th Webinar - "Overdose Crisis in Transition: Changing Trends in a Widening Drug Death Epidemic"
Oct. 19, 2020: For nearly two decades, the United States has experienced a growing epidemic of drug overdose deaths. But even by standards of the rapidly evolving opioid crisis, mortality data from 2018 illustrate a stark transformation: While the U.S. recorded rare declines in death rates from prescription...Read MoreReport/Brief: Using 1115 Waivers to Fund State Uncompensated Care Pools
Oct. 08, 2020: What is an Uncompensated Care Pool? Uncompensated care pools (UC pools, or UCPs) are one strategy used by states in order to fund care for the uninsured and the underinsured. The pools are primarily used to pay providers for a portion of the free care they provide, thereby ensuring access to...Read MorePresentation: October 21st Webinar - Rising Suicide Rates: Examining Trends and Variations through State-level Data
Oct. 08, 2020: Over the past two decades, the rise in suicide death rates has continued along an accelerating climb. According to new vital statistics data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United States suicide rate reached another historic high of ...Read MoreBlog: Eleven Updated Measures are Now Available on State Health Compare
Oct. 05, 2020: Estimates for a majority of measures from several categories (Access to Care, Cost of Care, Health Behaviors, and Health Outcomes) have now been updated on SHADAC’s State Health Compare web tool, from two related surveys conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—the Youth Risk...Read MoreReport/Brief: Comparing Federal Government Surveys That Count the Uninsured: 2020
Oct. 02, 2020: With the release of new insurance coverage estimates from surveys conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), SHADAC has updated our annual “Comparing Federal Government Surveys...Read MoreBlog: Exploring Strategies to Fill Gaps in Medicaid Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data
Oct. 01, 2020: The following content is cross-posted from State Health and Value Strategies. It was first published on October 1, 2020. Authors: Elizabeth Lukanen and Emily Zylla, SHADAC As states seek to address the social determinants of health and advance health equity, they face...Read MorePresentation: October 13th Webinar - "From Telephone to Multi-mode Surveys: State Case Studies and Conversations"
Sep. 29, 2020: Date: October 13, 2020 Time: 11:30 AM Central / 12:30 PM Eastern For years response rates for random digit dial (RDD) telephone surveys have been falling and costs of conducting these surveys have been rising. With growing concerns about sample coverage and costs, many ongoing...Read MoreBlog: New Subsidized Marketplace Data and Other Data Tables Now Available from the 2019 American Community Survey (ACS)
Sep. 23, 2020: The U.S. Census Bureau recently released 2019 estimates of income, poverty, and health insurance coverage from both the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC) and the American Community Survey (ACS). Along with the new estimates, several new data sets and...Read MorePresentation: September 23rd Webinar - An Annual Conversation with the U.S. Census Bureau: 2019 Health Insurance Coverage Data from the American Community Survey (ACS) & Current Population Survey (CPS)
Sep. 22, 2020: On Wednesday, September 23, 2020, SHADAC researchers and U.S. Census Bureau experts held a webinar that examined the new 2019 health insurance coverage data at both the national and the state level, as well as by coverage type, from both the American Community Survey (ACS) and the...Read More2019 ACS Tables: State and County Uninsured Rates, with Comparison Year 2018
Sep. 17, 2020: The interactive map on this page links to tables containing state and county uninsurance estimates for 2019. These estimates come from the 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) via the U.S. Census Bureau's data.census.gov tool. Click on a state below to see state and...Read MoreBlog: 2019 ACS: Insurance Coverage Overall Fell Nationwide and among the States, with Private and Public Coverage Declines Seen at the State Level
Sep. 17, 2020: The U.S. Census Bureau has released 1-year estimates from the 2019 American Community Survey (ACS), including state-level information about health insurance coverage by type. This post focuses on private and public coverage. The State Story Nationally, the health insurance coverage rate...Read MoreBlog: Factors in Financial Burdens Related to Health Care for Californians
Sep. 15, 2020: Though robust Affordable Care Act (ACA) implementation efforts in California have resulted in larger numbers of residents with health care coverage, Californians are now facing coverage-related issues regarding rising costs of care and increasing financial burdens as a result of lack of...Read MoreBlog: 2019 ACS: Rising National Uninsured Rate Echoed Across 19 States; Virginia Only State to See Decrease (Infographics)
Sep. 15, 2020: New 2019 health insurance coverage estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) were released this morning, and findings from the survey show the national rate of uninsured increased from 8.9% in 2018 to 9.2% in 2019. This 0.3 percentage-point increase...Read MorePages
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