Blog & News

Two New Changes to the Child Vaccinations Measure on SHADAC’s State Health Compare

State Health Compare Users Can Now Explore Unemployment by Race/Ethnicity

Update to SHADAC’s Minnesota Uninsured Profile Tool Features Customized Legislative District Infographics Aimed at Addressing Disparities

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 o Read More

Minnesota and U.S. Uninsurance Rates Grew in Years Leading up to Pandemic

Children’s uninsurance rate held steady recently, while non-elderly adults’ rate increased in 2019 Read More

November 10th Webinar - "Overdose Crisis in Transition: Changing Trends in a Widening Drug Death Epidemic"

October 21st Webinar - Rising Suicide Rates: Examining Trends and Variations through State-level Data

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 14.2 per 100… Read More

Eleven Updated Measures are Now Available on State Health Compare

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 B Read More

Exploring Strategies to Fill Gaps in Medicaid Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data

The following content is cross-posted from State Health and Value Strategies. It was first published on October 1, 2020. Read More

New Subsidized Marketplace Data and Other Data Tables Now Available from the 2019 American Community Survey (ACS)

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). Read More

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)

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 Current… Read More