Dec. 20, 2018:An analysis by SHADAC examines housing affordability, looking specifically at the percent of rental households that spend more than 30% of their monthly income on rent. This measure is now available on SHADAC’s State Health Compare for all states from 2012 through 2017, and can be broken down...Read More
Dec. 12, 2018:SHADAC has updated eight data measures with the latest available estimates on our State Health Compare site. The updated measures include:
Public Health Funding
This measure indicates an individual state’s share of public health funding for the previous fiscal year. Data is available...Read More
Dec. 05, 2018:SHADAC recently conducted an assessment for the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) regarding Medicaid eligibility, enrollment, and renewal processes and systems in six study states—Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, New York, and North Carolina.
This assessment sheds light on...Read More
Dec. 05, 2018:This SHADAC contractor report was produced for the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC). The purpose of the analysis was to examine Medicaid eligibility, enrollment, and renewal practices in six states in light of the Affordable Care Act goals of making the Medicaid program...Read More
Dec. 05, 2018:SHADAC produced this case study for the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) as part of a contract to examine Medicaid eligibility, enrollment, and renewal practices in six states in light of the Affordable Care Act goals of making the Medicaid program more...Read More
Dec. 05, 2018:SHADAC produced this case study for the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) as part of a contract to examine Medicaid eligibility, enrollment, and renewal practices in six states in light of the Affordable Care Act goals of making the Medicaid program more...Read More
Dec. 05, 2018:SHADAC produced this case study for the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) as part of a contract to examine Medicaid eligibility, enrollment, and renewal practices in six states in light of the Affordable Care Act goals of making the Medicaid program more...Read More
Dec. 05, 2018:SHADAC produced this case study for the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) as part of a contract to examine Medicaid eligibility, enrollment, and renewal practices in six states in light of the Affordable Care Act goals of making the Medicaid program more...Read More
Dec. 05, 2018:SHADAC produced this case study for the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) as part of a contract to examine Medicaid eligibility, enrollment, and renewal practices in six states in light of the Affordable Care Act goals of making the Medicaid program more...Read More
Dec. 05, 2018:SHADAC produced this case study for the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) as part of a contract to examine Medicaid eligibility, enrollment, and renewal practices in six states in light of the Affordable Care Act goals of making the Medicaid program more efficient;...Read More
Dec. 04, 2018:SHADAC has updated seven measures on our State Health Compare site. Updated content includes:
Health Insurance Coverage Type
This measure shows rates of uninsurance or coverage type and is now available for all states from 2008 through 2017, with breakdowns by age, citizenship,...Read More
Nov. 26, 2018:Presentation by SHADAC Senior Research Fellow Emily Zylla at the 2018 Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM) Fall Research Meeting in Washington, DC.
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Nov. 26, 2018:Presentation by SHADAC Director Lynn Blewett at the 2018 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Fall Research Conference in Washington, DC.
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Nov. 16, 2018:
An estimated 8.7% of the U.S. population remains without health insurance coverage, even in a post-Affordable Care Act (ACA) landscape. Data from the 2017 American Community Survey (ACS) show that many of the remaining uninsured are clustered in metropolitan areas—identified as metropolitan...Read More
Nov. 15, 2018:Nationwide, 12.5% of nonelderly adults (ages 18-64) were uninsured in the first half of 2018, unchanged from 12.5% in the same period in 2017.
This finding is based on new health insurance coverage estimates for Q1-Q2 2018 from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). These estimates were...Read More
Nov. 05, 2018:In a rare positive sign regarding the national opioid crisis, new provisional data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggest that the persistent increases in overdose deaths may be slowing, with a possible leveling out or even a small drop in U.S. opioid-related...Read More
Oct. 31, 2018:According to the 2016 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH), Latino children in California face lower access to health care than their white counterparts across multiple access indicators.
Despite representing more than half of children living in the state, Latino children are less...Read More
Oct. 30, 2018:This file presents two sheets in an Excel workbook with sample counts by state for the Current Population Survey (CPS) from survey year 1988 to the present. One sheet is for individuals and one for households. Updated October 2018.
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Oct. 21, 2018:This file presents four sheets in an Excel workbook with sample counts by state for the ACS for years in which health insurance estimates are available (starting in 2008). The sheets include: individual counts from the PUMS, household counts from the PUMS, individual counts from the full...Read More
Oct. 18, 2018:The prevalence of obesity among adults in the United States increased to 30.1 percent in 2017, up from 29.6 percent in 2016, according to SHADAC’s analysis of new Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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