Health Equity
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.
In this blog, we use MNHA data to better understand access to mental health care and health care affordability in Minnesota. Our study's results suggest that individuals with unmet needs for mental health care in Minnesota may also have difficulty accessing it due to cost barriers.
Housing affordability is a key social determinant of health. Housing and health are connected – in this blog, we take a look at housing affordability in the U.S. by state and subpopulation.
Discrimination in health care settings is an understudied factor in health care access and health outcomes, particularly for mental health. Even fewer studies have looked specifically at the intersections of multiple forms of unfair treatment in relation to provider discrimination, health care… Read more
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.
SHADAC Senior Research Associate Natalie Schwehr Mac Arthur and co-authors wanted to better understand provider discrimination based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity in Minnesota. Their analysis of 2021 & 2023 data from the Minnesota Health Access Survey (MNHA) has been published by… Read more
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.
Senior Research Fellow Colin Planalp presented his research on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and their pernicious role in undermining the health of both children and adults in SHADAC’s free webinar on April 24th. View the video, transcript, and slides in this post.