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Presentation: Who Gets It Right? Characteristics Associated with Accurate Reports of Health Insurance Coverage

Jul. 18, 2018: Presentation by Kathleen T. Call at the 2018 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, June 25, 2018 in Seattle, WA.  View PDF of the presentation. Read More

Presentation: Minnesota LTSS Projection Model: MN-LPM

Jul. 18, 2018: Presentation by Giovann Alarcon at the 2018 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, June 25, 2018 in Seattle, WA.  View PDF of the presentation. Read More

Presentation: Modeling Financial Eligibility for Medicaid Payment of LTSS

Jul. 18, 2018: Presentation by Robert Hest at the 2018 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, June 26, 2018 in Seattle, WA.  View PDF of the presentation. Read More

Presentation: Advancements in Care Coordination: Findings from an Evaluation of Minnesota's State Innovation Model Initiative

Jul. 18, 2018: Poster presented by Carrie Au-Yeung at the 2018 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, June 24, 2018 in Seattle, WA.  View PDF of the poster.  Read More

Presentation: Section 1115 Medicaid Expansion Waivers: Implementation Experiences of Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, & Michigan

Jul. 18, 2018: Poster presented by Carrie Au-Yeung at the 2018 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, June 24, 2018 in Seattle, WA.  View PDF of the poster.  Read More

Presentation: Modeling State-based Reinsurance: One Option for Stabilization of the Individual Market

Jul. 18, 2018: Presentation by Brett Fried at the 2018 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, June 24, 2018 in Seattle, WA.  View PDF of the presentation.  Read More

Now Available on State Health Compare: Updated Data on Five Measures of Social Determinants of Health and Three Measures of Youth Health Behaviors

Jul. 12, 2018: SHADAC has updated eight measures in State Health Compare. The updated measures include: Unemployment Rate This measure is now available for all states from 2000 through 2017. Smoke-Free Campuses The measure is an indication of whether a state has enacted laws to ensure smoke-free...Read More

Blog: The Changing Opioid Epidemic: National Trends, 2000-2016

Jul. 06, 2018: When the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began raising alarms about the growing epidemic of opioid overdose deaths in 2011, the problem was mostly related to prescription painkillers. But in a new issue brief, SHADAC researchers find that the opioid crisis has transformed quickly in...Read More

SHADAC at the 2018 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting

Jun. 21, 2018: A number of SHADAC researchers and SHARE grantees will be presenting their research at the 2018 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) in Washington, DC from Sunday, June 24th to Tuesday, June 26th, and at the Interest Group Meetings on Saturday, June 23. Their...Read More

Report/Brief: The Opioid Epidemic: National and State Trends in Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths, 2000-2016 (Briefs)

Jun. 19, 2018: For nearly two decades, the United States has experienced a growing crisis of drug abuse and addiction that is illustrated most starkly by deaths from drug overdose. Since 2000, the number of drug overdose deaths has more than tripled from 17,500 to 63,500 in 2016.1,2 Most of these deaths involved...Read More

Presentation: SHARE Panel at 7th Annual ASHEcon

Jun. 08, 2018: The 2018 Conference of the American Society of Health Conomists (ASHEcon) will take place from June 10th to June 13th at Emory University in Atlanta, with this year's theme being "Economics and Public Health." An ASHEcon panel featuring findings from recent SHARE-funded research projects is...Read More

Blog: Children's Health Insurance Coverage, 2013-2016: Post-ACA Reductions in Uninsurance Persisted

Jun. 06, 2018: A new analysis from SHADAC examines health insurance coverage among children in the United States from 2013 through 2016, looking at changes in children’s coverage before and after the coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) took effect in 2014. The report examines ...Read More

Sarah Gollust in Health Affairs: TV Advertising Volumes Were Associated with Insurance Marketplace Shopping and Enrollment In 2014

Jun. 04, 2018: According to an article released in Health Affairs, people living in counties with higher numbers of television advertisements sponsored by the federal government were significantly more likely to shop for and enroll in a Marketplace plan. Sarah Gollust of the University of Minnesota, School of...Read More

Report/Brief: State-Level Trends in Children's Health Insurance Coverage, 2013-2016

Jun. 01, 2018: Chartbook This SHADAC chartbook uses data from the American Community Survey (ACS) to examine health insurance coverage from 2013 to 2016 for children at the national level and in the states. Download the chartbook.  Download 50-state tables for cross-state and national...Read More

SHADAC In the Media

May. 31, 2018: SHADAC is focused on providing sound data that informs health policy decisions and translating complex findings into actionable information that is accessible to a broad audience. Our researchers have a breadth of expertise in a variety of areas including economics, statistics,...Read More

Journal Article: Affordable Care Act Impact in Kentucky: Increasing Access, Reducing Disparities

May. 29, 2018: The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) has just released a SHADAC-authored article, “Affordable Care Act in Kentucky: Increasing Access, Reducing Disparities.” The piece was co-authored by SHADAC Director Lynn A. Blewett along with SHADAC researchers Colin Planalp and Giovann Alarcón. The...Read More

Journal Article: SHADAC Research in American Journal of Public Health: ACA Led to Increased Health Insurance Access, Reduced Disparities in Kentucky

May. 29, 2018: The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) has just released a SHADAC-authored article, “Affordable Care Act in Kentucky: Increasing Access, Reducing Disparities.” The piece was co-authored by SHADAC Director Lynn A. Blewett along with SHADAC researchers Colin Planalp and Giovann Alarcón. The...Read More

Kids' Health Data Highlight: Parental Attendance at Kids' Activities in 2016 (Infographic)

May. 24, 2018: It is increasingly clear that health is determined not just by biological and clinical factors but to a greater extent by socio-demographic factors. With this in mind, we need data for monitoring the social determinants of health just as we do for monitoring biological and clinical determinants....Read More

NHIS: Insurance Coverage Held Steady Overall in 2017, but Key Income Groups Saw Changes

May. 23, 2018: The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released health insurance coverage estimates for 2017 from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) as part of the NHIS Early Release Program. These are the first available full-year coverage estimates for 2017 from a federal survey, with...Read More

SHARE Results from Sara McMenamin in American Journal of Preventive Medicine: ACA Improved and Expanded Medicaid Coverage of Smoking Cessation Treatment

May. 15, 2018: According to a new article in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) improved and expanded state Medicaid coverage of effective smoking cessation treatment, although many programs are not fully compliant with the law. The analysis, which is based on a...Read More

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