Data Visualization
Our updated uninsured profile mapping tool helps make complex health data easier to understand, providing a visual companion to the tool’s Excel spreadsheet. In this post, we look at the map’s features and how you can use it to explore uninsurance and health care access in MN.
Visualizations, like BRFSS maps and tables, can help users analyze and explore BRFSS data. BRFSS visualization tools on State Health Compare let you easily create clear, understandable, and accessible charts & graphs to start your own analysis of BRFSS data. Learn more in this blog.
What are pre-existing conditions? Pre existing conditions could once lead to automatic denial of insurance coverage. Learn more in SHADAC's latest Basics Blog.
Sunday, March 23, 2025 marked 15 years since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law. In this post, we take a look at what the Affordable Care Act is, how it’s changed America’s insurance coverage rates, and the impact of the ACA on uninsured populations.
What is the Gini coefficient? It is the most commonly used measure of inequality, often used to measure income inequality specifically. Learn more in our latest Basics Blog.
Newly released Q3 NHIS data show significant changes in health insurance coverage coincident with the Medicaid unwinding. In this blog, we cover relevant changes in health insurance coverage compared to the same period the year prior, and changes by various breakdowns.
SHADAC has updated health data sets on our State Health Compare tool with the latest available health statistics and health data. In this blog, we detail the measures that were updated, providing you with a short description of each measure and its data source.
From pre-pandemic to during the pandemic, heavy alcohol use among Americans rose nearly 20%. This increase in drinking was sustained through 2022.
“Forgone care” describes when someone does not use or access health care despite a need for it.
Social determinants of health are social factors that impact an individual or community’s health.