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Sobering Statistics: Acceleration of Alcohol-Attributable Deaths Across the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sobering Statistics: Acceleration of Alcohol-Attributable Deaths Across the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Alcohol attributable deaths have been rising since 2006. Alcohol death rates accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic - learn more about how this is affecting different demographic groups in our latest brief. Read More
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Underlying Factors of Medicaid Inequities: Conversations with Experts on Racism and Medicaid
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 More
Children's Uninsurance by Race and Ethnicity Using American Community Survey (ACS) Data
Children's Uninsurance by Race and Ethnicity Using American Community Survey (ACS) Data
The page provides data for children's uninsurance by race and ethnicity from 2017 through 2022... Read More
PRESENTATION: Trends and Patterns in Fatal Drug Overdoses Since the COVID-19 Pandemic
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 More
“American Indian 101”: Understanding the history and contemporary experiences of Native people in a United States health policy context
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 More
Changing Dynamics in the Opioid Crisis Since the COVID-19 Pandemic
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 More
Medicaid Claims Data: Using T-MSIS for State Health Outcomes Research
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. Read More
Systemic Racism: Underlying Factors of Medicaid Inequities Annotated Bibliography
The State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and in collaboration with partner organizations is exploring whether a new national Medicaid Equity Monitoring Tool could increase accountability for state Medicaid programs to… Read More
A Post-Pandemic Look at the Cost of Employer-Sponsored Insurance (ESI) Coverage: Data from the 2023 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
Over the past five years, the makeup of the health insurance coverage marketplace in the United States has changed considerably due in large part to the COVID-19 related public health emergency (PHE) and its effects, both immediate and delayed. The arrival of the coronavirus caused an unprecedented… Read More
Systemic / Structural Ableism: Underlying Factors of Medicaid Inequities Annotated Bibliography
The State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and in collaboration with partner organizations is exploring whether a new national Medicaid Equity Monitoring Tool could increase accountability for state Medicaid programs to… Read More