Health Equity
This post provides infographics that describe unaffordable rents data for the U.S. overall and for four geographically diverse states (Florida, Nevada, North Dakota, and Vermont) with varying levels of unaffordable rents.
Access to affordable and stable housing is a key driver of health. In this blog, SHADAC researchers explore and analyze the impact of unaffordable rent in the United States by state, disability status, income level, and more using SHADAC’s data tool, State Health Compare.
The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the importance of telehealth services and the crucial role of broadband internet subscriptions in making those services possible. In this blog, we look at variation in states’ progress on improving the share of households with home broadband internet services… Read more
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth use has exploded. But what is telehealth? And what is telehealth vs telemedicine vs telecare? We explain the differences in this blog, along with discussion of the history of telehealth and the impact of COVID-19.
This blog explores both the 2023 Data Release 1, the most recent T-MSIS race and ethnicity data for which a DQ assessment is available, and provides a brief analysis of data quality trends over time.
SHADAC is pleased to announce that the ‘Minnesota Community and Uninsured Profile’ has been updated with 2024 American Community Survey estimates, thanks to the continued support from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation.
The latest data released from the Minnesota Health Access Survey (MNHA) show sharp increases in the uninsured rate in the state, increasing from 3.8% (a historic low) to 5.8% between 2023 and 2025. This equates to approximately 116,000 more Minnesotans being uninsured. Learn more in this blog.
In this blog, we use premature deaths data to understand public health trends. We also analyze variation in premature deaths across demographic subgroups.
On SHADAC’s State Health Compare website, we offer a measure called “premature deaths,” which estimates the number of years of potential life lost prior to age 75 (an approximation of U.S. life expectancy) per 100,000 people. Learn more in this blog.
In 2024, the national unemployment rate increased for the first time since 2020. Using the State Health Compare data tool, we also saw that unemployment rate varied by race/ethnicity and by state; learn more in this blog.