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Report/Brief: Sobering Statistics: Acceleration of Alcohol-Attributable Deaths Across the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Dec. 19, 2024: Alcohol has long been one of the few legal mind-altering substances in the United States. While legal, messaging around its use – and misuse – has often been mixed. Moderate levels of drinking, such as a glass of wine or beer with dinner, were once recommended as a way to promote...Read MoreBlog: Food Insecurity in America: New Social Determinants State Health Compare Measure Tracks Percent of Households Experiencing Food Insecurity
Dec. 16, 2024: Social determinants of health are social factors that impact an individual or community’s health. As explained by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, “Good health begins where we live, learn, work and play. Stable housing, quality schools, access to good jobs, and neighborhood safety are all...Read MoreReport/Brief: Underlying Factors of Medicaid Inequities: Conversations with Experts on Racism and Medicaid
Dec. 11, 2024: Medicaid serves as a vital public health safety net for over 79 million people, including many from historically excluded or marginalized communities. There is a great opportunity to improve Medicaid programs’ accountability for persistent health inequities by confronting the historical...Read MoreBlog: Seven Measures Have Been Retired from State Health Compare
Dec. 10, 2024: To maintain State Health Compare (SHC) as a relevant and current resource for data users, SHADAC regularly evaluates our collection of SHC measures to ensure they inform current health care and health policy discussions. We also want to be able to update measures consistently with recent data....Read MoreResource: Children's Uninsurance by Race and Ethnicity Using American Community Survey (ACS) Data
Dec. 06, 2024: .tg {border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0;} .tg td{border-color:black;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px; overflow:hidden;padding:10px 5px;word-break:normal;} .tg th{border-color:black;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;font-family:Arial,...Read MoreHannah Ehrlich
Dec. 05, 2024: Hannah Ehrlich joined SHADAC in August 2024. She is a second-year JD-MPH student at the University of Minnesota Law School and School of Public Health with a focus on public health administration and policy. Hannah earned a B.S. in biology from Brandeis University. Her interests include equitable...Read MoreBlog: Exploring Racial Disparities in Forgone Health Care Using State Health Compare
Dec. 02, 2024: “Forgone care” describes when someone does not use or access health care despite a need for it. While there are a number of reasons why someone might choose to forgo care (e.g., fear of medical procedures or diagnosis, lack of health literacy and/or understanding, limited access to care, cultural...Read MoreBlog: SHADAC Leadership Transition Announcement
Nov. 22, 2024: After more than 25 years of work and dedication to health policy research and to the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) Founding Director & Principal Investigator Dr. Lynn Blewett has announced her decision to...Read MorePresentation: PRESENTATION: Trends and Patterns in Fatal Drug Overdoses Since the COVID-19 Pandemic
Nov. 18, 2024: SHADAC Senior Research Fellow Colin Planalp presented at the APHA Annual Meeting in October 2024. In this presentation, Mr. Planalp reviews trends and patterns in fatal drug overdoses since the COVID-19 pandemic, including the increase in fentanyl related overdose deaths, which significantly...Read MoreJeffrey Barrera
Nov. 12, 2024: Jeffrey Barrera joined SHADAC in 2024 as a Master of Public Health student in the Public Health Administration & Policy Program. He is interested in health care quality improvement measures, health equity research, and policy analysis. Before starting his master's degree, Jeffrey earned a...Read MoreBlog: 2024 NHIS Data Early Release: Q2 (April – June) Estimates Show Uninsurance Remained Stable While Many Shifted from Public to Private Coverage
Nov. 11, 2024: On November 8, 2024, The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released quarterly estimates of health insurance coverage from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) covering the second quarter (April – June) of 2024. This blog post covers this newly released Q2 NHIS data, including...Read MoreBlog: Race/Ethnicity Data in CMS Medicaid (T-MSIS) Analytic Files: 2022 Data Assessment
Nov. 08, 2024: The Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS) is the largest national database of current Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) beneficiary information collected from U.S. states, territories, and the District of Columbia (DC).1 T-MSIS data are...Read MoreReport/Brief: “American Indian 101”: Understanding the history and contemporary experiences of Native people in a United States health policy context
Nov. 06, 2024: American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) is a racial/ethnic category that describes people with ancestry indigenous to North America prior to colonization in 1492. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, there were approximately 9.7 million Americans who identified as Native American alone or as...Read MoreBlog: What Do the New Census Data Say About Insurance Coverage for Children and Adults? A Look at Both the National and State Level (SHVS Cross-Post)
Nov. 01, 2024: The following Expert Perspective (EP) is cross-posted from State Health & Value Strategies. Authors: Elizabeth Lukanen, Elliot Walsh, Robert Hest, SHADAC Original posting date October 30, 2024. Find the original post here on the SHVS website. Background on Census...Read MoreBlog: What Are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)? ACEs Definition, Data Challenges, and Resources
Oct. 24, 2024: Basics Blog Introduction SHADAC has created a series of “Basics Blogs” to familiarize readers with common terms, concepts, and topics that are frequently covered. Children’s health is impacted by a number of factors – family life and income, housing, neighborhood, nutrition,...Read MoreReport/Brief: Changing Dynamics in the Opioid Crisis Since the COVID-19 Pandemic
Oct. 18, 2024: Soaring rates of fatal fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine overdoses have worsened and spread to previously insulated groups, including teenagers and the elderly It has been more than a decade since the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared a national opioid “epidemic...Read MoreReport/Brief: Medicaid Claims Data: Using T-MSIS for State Health Outcomes Research
Oct. 10, 2024: Curated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), T-MSIS, or the Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System, is a comprehensive database of claims made to state Medicaid and CHIP programs by their beneficiaries. This includes data from all 50 states and the District of...Read MoreBlog: Survey Data Season Essentials: ACS vs CPS: What Is the Difference Between These Two Federal Surveys?
Oct. 02, 2024: This post is a part of our Survey Data Season series where we examine data from various surveys that are released annually from the summer through early fall. Find all of the Survey Data Season series posts on our Survey Data Season 2024 page here. Each year,...Read MoreBlog: Children’s Health Insurance in 2023: Exploring Rising Uninsured Rates for Low-Income Children
Sep. 18, 2024: This post is a part of our Survey Data Season series where we examine data from various surveys that are released annually from the summer through early fall. Find all of the Survey Data Season series posts on our Survey Data Season 2024 page here. With the...Read MoreBlog: 2023 ACS Tables: State and County Uninsured Rates, with Comparison Year 2022
Sep. 17, 2024: This post is a part of our Survey Data Season series where we examine data from various surveys that are released annually from the summer through early fall. Find all of the Survey Data Season series posts on our Survey Data Season 2024 page here. Each year,...Read MorePages
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