Public and Population Health
Federal developments in 2025 have led to concerns about the future of numerous data sources. This blog consolidates 22 examples of federal data preservation, tracking, and innovation efforts related to health data in a clear and organized table.
SHADAC researchers use MEPS-IC data to look at national and state-level employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) access, enrollment, and cost data in 2024 as compared to 2023.
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 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.
What are MOUD? In this blog, we explore Medications for Opioid Use Disorder, reviewing a definition for OUD, a list of currently approved MOUD, how these medications work, and current barriers for their access and use.
Each year, SHADAC uses data released from the American Community Survey (ACS) via the U.S. Census Bureau's data.census.gov tool to produce estimates of uninsurance at the state and county level.
In this blog, SHADAC experts answer: what are opioids? This blog provides a review of common opioids, explaining how their chemistry and how they work in the body are foundational to the evolution of the opioid crisis.
What is Medicaid, exactly? Who is eligible? How is Medicaid funded? And why does Medicaid vary from state to state? In honor of Medicaid’s 60th anniversary, this blog walks through the origins of the Medicaid program, how Medicaid is funded, and how its flexibility supports innovation.
This issue of gaps in care for teen health and young adults was the focus of a recent research study by SHADAC Research Fellow Robert Hest and SHADAC co-founder Kathleen Call published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.