Oct. 31, 2022:Updated April 2023
In the years following the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), SHADAC developed and introduced its Health Insurance Unit, or “HIU,” a tool to aid in defining family interrelationships in federal population surveys for the purpose of analyzing...Read More
Oct. 28, 2022:
With the release of new insurance coverage estimates from surveys conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), SHADAC has updated our annual “Comparing Federal...Read More
Oct. 20, 2022:A change to the 2021 BRFSS’ “personal doctor” question has led to large changes in the share of respondents reporting having no personal doctor
The Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a long-running, telephone-based state survey designed to...Read More
Oct. 10, 2022:
This updated SHADAC brief on state-provided public health funding estimates highlights newly-available 2021 data as well as trends over the past decade (2012–2021). These estimates come from SHADAC’s State Health Compare measure, “Public Health Funding”, which provides annual estimates of per-...Read More
Oct. 06, 2022:SHADAC Deputy Director Elizabeth Lukanen served as an expert panelist for an Alliance for Health Policy briefing hosted by Arnold Ventures titled "Better Health through Data: Opportunities and Limitations of Health Data" which was held virtually on October 6, 2022. This event reviewed the...Read More
Sep. 29, 2022:SHADAC hosted a webinar on Thursday, September 29, 2022 that provided an overview of 2011 health insurance coverage estimates from two key, large-scale federal data sources: The American Community Survey (ACS) and the Current Population Survey (CPS).
This webinar examined the new...Read More
Sep. 28, 2022:Health insurance is a linchpin in the United States’ health care system. It can insulate families from deep financial strain and medical debt, as costs for health care services have grown increasingly unaffordable in recent decades. For children, the doorway to health care offered by insurance is...Read More
Sep. 22, 2022:On September 19, 2022, SHADAC investigator Kathleen Thiede Call presented at the Minnesota Department of Health's Health Equity Data Community of Practice Meeting. This presentation included a guided tour of SHADAC's Minnesota Community and Uninsured Profile, along with a brief history of...Read More
Sep. 15, 2022:
In a slight departure from their normal process, the U.S. Census Bureau released all 2021 estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS) today, which included state-level information about health insurance coverage by coverage type as well by certain demographic categories. The Census...Read More
Sep. 13, 2022:The U.S. Census Bureau has released an initial report detailing the state of health insurance coverage in the United States for 2021. Drawing on data from the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC), the report highlights good news overall as the percentage of the...Read More
Aug. 30, 2022:The COVID-19 pandemic has altered long-standing patterns of life and work in the United States and internationally. The pandemic, along with the associated policy response, led to (at least temporary) changes in Americans’ primary source of health insurance coverage, with more Americans enrolled in...Read More
Aug. 30, 2022:Throughout the United States, a majority of Americans and their families receive health insurance coverage through their employer. In 2021, the number of individuals enrolled in this type of coverage–known as employer-sponsored insurance or ESI–exceeded 62.2 million. In this blog, infographic, and...Read More
Aug. 25, 2022:In order for the more than 80 million Medicaid beneficiaries to access needed care in a timely manner, there must be a sufficient number of health care providers to serve these patients. There has long been concern that providers are less likely to accept Medicaid patients than patients with other...Read More
Aug. 08, 2022:The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has released quarterly estimates of health insurance coverage beginning in January 2021 through March 2022 from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) as part of the NHIS Early Release Program.
After disruptions to data collection operations...Read More
Jul. 25, 2022:Estimates for five measures of health care access, affordability, and use have now been updated on SHADAC’s State Health Compare web tool. One new measure, Had Dental Visit has also been added to the tool. The new and updated measures are all produced using data from the National Health Interview...Read More
Jul. 21, 2022:The speed and accuracy with which state Medicaid programs process applications will become increasingly important as the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) comes to an end. Once states phase out the PHE, they will have to manage new Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)...Read More
Jul. 07, 2022:The COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt many patterns of life and work in the United States and internationally, while exacerbating many long-standing concerns regarding health care affordability, access, and utilization as well as rates of health insurance coverage for Americans. In this regard...Read More
Jun. 28, 2022:A committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is hosting a series of public workshops to explore potential ways to accelerate the use of patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) findings in clinical practice to improve health and health care.
In the second...Read More
Jun. 07, 2022:June 7, 2022
Despite improvements, disparities in prevalence persisted
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues in the United States, anxiety and depression levels remain elevated compared to pre-pandemic rates. However, 2021 data shows a significant decline in reported anxiety and...Read More
Jun. 02, 2022:This report provides an overview of our topic areas, technical expertise, and partnerships as well as a glimpse into some of the work done at SHADAC in 2021. Click the report below to flip through our 2021 Annual Report.
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