Mar. 02, 2020:Population Health
Population health research focuses on the health outcomes, health determinants, and policies and programs that affect a specific group of individuals, or “population.” SHADAC researchers often conduct population health research by geographic levels, most often for states, but...Read More
Mar. 02, 2020:Health Equity
Improvements in health equity depend on a better understanding of health disparities and efforts to reduce avoidable differences in health outcomes as well as other conditions, such as access to safe housing, healthy food, transportation and jobs. Better data collection and...Read More
Mar. 02, 2020:Health Care Cost and Affordability
Health care cost and affordable health care are understandably at the forefront of consumer concerns as studies show rising health care spending across the nation. For over a decade, SHADAC has monitored and produced reports on health care cost and...Read More
Feb. 27, 2020:
BRFSS SPOTLIGHT SERIES OVERVIEW
This three-part series from SHADAC focuses on data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey, an annual telephone survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that collects data from...Read More
Feb. 11, 2020:In a new issue brief for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies, SHADAC Senior Researchers Lacey Hartman, MPP, Elizabeth Lukanen, MPH, and Colin Planalp, MPA explain how researchers and policymakers can leverage federal survey data to inform and target interventions...Read More
Feb. 10, 2020:
BRFSS SPOTLIGHT SERIES OVERVIEW
This three-part series from SHADAC focuses on data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey, an annual telephone survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that collects data from...Read More
Jan. 30, 2020:New SHADAC Report on States Serving Justice-Involved Populations through Section 1115 Waivers
Under a Research in Transforming Health and Health Care Systems grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, SHADAC recently conducted a study of the ways in which states are using Section 1115...Read More
Dec. 20, 2019:Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released a policy brief recognizing the growing housing affordability crisis in the United States, especially as it affects metropolitan areas and rental units.1 Lack of low-cost rental housing is one of the main...Read More
Dec. 17, 2019:The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently reported that the cost of health care spending in the United States increased by 4.6 percent last year to reach an all-time high of approximately $3.6 trillion.1 This report comes amidst a number of other concerning health...Read More
Dec. 02, 2019:Estimates for measures from a variety of categories (Health Outcomes, Health Behaviors, Access to Care, Cost of Care, and Social and Economic Factors, etc.) have now been updated on SHADAC’s State Health Compare web tool. All measures now contain data for 2018, the most recent year available. State...Read More
Nov. 26, 2019:Medicaid and CHIP Policy
SHADAC has worked both independently and under contract to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Medicaid and CHIP Payment Access Commission (MACPAC) to monitor and analyze changes in the Medicaid and CHIP policy landscape such as Medicaid expansion,...Read More
Nov. 26, 2019:State and Federal Health Policy and Strategies
Our faculty and staff are nationally recognized experts on collecting and applying sound data to inform public health, health care reform strategies, federal healthcare policy, and health policy decisions at both the state and federal levels....Read More
Nov. 25, 2019:
Under contract with the Connecticut Health Foundation, SHADAC Senior Researchers Christina Worrall, MPP, and Emily Zylla, MPH, have authored a new policy brief exploring the launch of a new statewide health information exchange in Connecticut—called the Health Information Alliance—and the next...Read More
Nov. 20, 2019:
Researchers at SHADAC have long been interested in the issue of “Medicaid undercount,” or the discrepancies that exist between survey estimates of enrollment in Medicaid and the number of enrollees that are actually reported in state and national administrative data—a pattern in which the...Read More
Nov. 15, 2019:Introduction
Change is constant in the nongroup health insurance market, and both recent and forthcoming regulation changes might pose a threat to market stability. So far, these regulation changes include eliminating the individual mandate tax penalty; eliminating cost sharing payments in 2017;...Read More
Nov. 12, 2019:Health Coverage and Access to Care
Since its inception, SHADAC has been dedicated to conducting research and providing technical assistance in order to examine characteristics of and trends in health insurance coverage and access to care and associations with overall physical, social, and mental...Read More
Oct. 28, 2019:On Thursday, October 24, SHADAC Senior Research Fellow Colin Planalp presented a data-focused look at Minnesota’s opioid crisis during the University of Minnesota’s Medical Industry Leadership Institute “Combating Minnesota’s Opioid Epidemic” policy forum. Colin shared the stage with experts in a...Read More
Oct. 25, 2019:With the release of new insurance coverage estimates from surveys conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, SHADAC recently updated our annual brief “Comparing Federal Government Surveys that Count the...Read More
Oct. 22, 2019:Much like the opioid epidemic currently encompassing the nation, death rates from suicide in the United States have been increasing at an alarming pace in recent decades. While the toll of opioids has received substantial attention, the toll from other causes of what researchers have termed “deaths...Read More
Oct. 18, 2019:The interactive map on this page links to tables containing state and county uninsurance estimates for 2018. These estimates come from the 2018 American Community Survey (ACS) via the U.S. Census Bureau's data.census.gov tool.
Click on a state to see state and county...Read More