Feb. 15, 2023:Twenty-five years ago, a watershed study on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) first established a relationship between childhood trauma and long-term health impacts that can last well into adulthood.1 Since then, numerous related studies have corroborated the association between ACEs and...Read More
Feb. 15, 2023:Authors: Colin Planalp, MPA and Andrea Stewart, MA
Drawing on data from the National Survey of Children’s Health, this brief investigates the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and disparities in ACEs exposure by children’s race, family income...Read More
Feb. 09, 2023:
The following content is cross-posted from State Health & Value Strategies.
Original publication date: February 9, 2023.
Authors: Elizabeth Lukanen, Emily Zylla, SHADAC
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act implemented a Medicaid continuous enrollment requirement which...Read More
Feb. 01, 2023:Research has consistently shown that surveys that measure health insurance coverage underestimate the number of people enrolled in Medicaid; this is known as the “Medicaid undercount.” SHADAC researchers have long monitored and investigated the magnitude, causes, and effects of the Medicaid...Read More
Jan. 30, 2023:Research has consistently shown that health insurance coverage surveys underestimate the number of people enrolled in Medicaid and the extent of this “Medicaid undercount” varies greatly across surveys and states. Among these surveys that measure health insurance coverage, the American...Read More
Jan. 24, 2023:This journal article was originally published in Volume 48, Issue 1 of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (JHPPL).
Authors: Lynn A. Blewett, PhD, MPA, Natalie Schwehr Mac Arthur, PhD, MAc, and James Campbell
SHADAC researchers recently published an article...Read More
Jan. 20, 2023:The following content is cross-posted from State Health and Value Strategies, published on January 19, 2023.
Authors: Elizabeth Lukanen and Robert Hest, SHADAC
Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) have played a key role in the response to the COVID-19...Read More
Jan. 18, 2023:
Check out our new video to learn tips and tricks for using SHADAC’s State Health Compare
SHADAC’s State Health Compare is a go-to resource for more than 45 data measures on a range of health topics including insurance coverage; cost of care; health...Read More
Jan. 11, 2023: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 critical for...Read More
Jan. 11, 2023:Each year, SHADAC uses data released from the American Community Survey (ACS) via the U.S. Census Bureau's data.census.gov tool to produce estimates of uninsurance at the state and county level.*
Click on a state in the interactive map below to view a PDF table of uninsured rates by state and...Read More
Dec. 15, 2022:As part of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) Early Release Program, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) recently published a second round of health insurance coverage estimates for the first half of 2022, covering the months of January to June.
Uninsurance was again...Read More
Dec. 09, 2022:Authors: Jeremy Duval, Natalie Mac Arthur, Kathleen Call
Definitions
Cisgender/cis: A person whose gender identity corresponds with their sex assigned at birth.
Transgender/trans: A person whose gender identity differs from their sex assigned at...Read More
Dec. 09, 2022:
SHADAC researchers Natalie Mac Arthur and Lynn Blewett recently published a journal article in Maternal and Child Health Journal that examines the medical home model—a widely accepted model of team-based primary care—and its unique contributions to child health outcomes.
Their...Read More
Dec. 08, 2022:This journal article was originally published in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH).
Authors: Kathleen Thiede Call, PhD, Giovann Alarcon-Espinoza, PhD, MPP, Natalie Schwer Mac Arthur, PhD, MAc, and Rhonda Jones-Webb, DrPH
SHADAC researchers and external co-authors recently...Read More
Dec. 05, 2022:Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Plan (CHIP) programs have played a key role in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, providing an important safety net for health insurance coverage for millions of people during this unprecedented public health crisis. The Families First Coronavirus Response...Read More
Nov. 30, 2022:Collecting and monitoring data on Medicaid enrollees that is broken down by race, ethnicity, and language (REL) is an essential first step in assessing health disparities as well as identifying strategies for improvement in state Medicaid programs. Although all state Medicaid agencies and most U.S...Read More
Nov. 22, 2022:Where people live, work, and play has been shown to have important impacts on health. In addition to one’s physical environment (e.g., access to safe schools, parks, and sources of nutritious food), the extent to which people feel connected to a supportive community with a network of resources is...Read More
Nov. 18, 2022:
In more than 20 years, the overdose crisis has shifted and grown from prescription opioids to a range of illicitly trafficked drugs
Just over a decade after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared an “epidemic” of overdoses from...Read More
Nov. 08, 2022:
BRFSS OVERVIEW
This analysis uses 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 respondents across all 50 states and D...Read More
Nov. 07, 2022:The following content is cross-posted from California Health Care Foundation published on November 4, 2022.
Authors: Colin Planalp and Lacey Hartman, SHADAC
Employer-sponsored insurance declined significantly; Medi-Cal and individual market coverage held steady
During 2021, the...Read More