Sep. 08, 2021:This brief aims to assist state and federal analysts with survey development and/or analysis of existing survey data to generate estimates of health insurance coverage and access to care across racial and ethnic groups and according to nativity and/or immigrant status. The brief presents the...Read More
Sep. 08, 2021:
Measurement of race, ethnicity, and immigration (REI) status is a critical component of research used to inform policy. However, the standards for measuring these concepts are often confusing for analysts. A new SHADAC brief aims to assist state and federal analysts with survey development and/...Read More
Aug. 27, 2021:The impacts of the coronavirus pandemic have been far ranging—on education, work, healthcare, and almost every other aspect of daily life. However, another effect of COVID that is just now coming to light is the interruption of data collection processes and falling response rates for yearly federal...Read More
Aug. 27, 2021:On a recent webinar, the U.S. Census Bureau made the announcement that they will not be releasing 2020 data from the American Community Survey (ACS) as usual in September. Instead, due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, “experimental” estimates will be available in November. This...Read More
Aug. 25, 2021:This Journal article was originally published in the California Journal of Politics and Policy.
Introduction
A cornerstone aim of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to make health insurance coverage readily available to more people in the United States through policies such as new...Read More
Aug. 05, 2021:Authors: Robert Hest and Julia Ngep
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...Read More
Aug. 04, 2021:The dramatic growth of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the crucial role of broadband access in ensuring that people can obtain healthcare services. Broadband has allowed individuals to leverage telehealth technology to receive care from providers in ways that minimize the...Read More
Aug. 01, 2021:This Journal article was originally published on August 26, 2021, in Health Services Research.
Introduction
This article authored by SHADAC Investigator Dr. Kathleen T. Call, and colleagues from the U.S. Census Bureau Angela R. Fertig and Joanne Pascale, explores factors associated with...Read More
Jul. 30, 2021:*Update (November 30, 2021): On November 30, the U.S. Census Bureau announced the official release of the 2020 ACS 1-year "experimental" estimates, along with the Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) file and a working paper.
On July 29, the U.S. Census Bureau announced during a special...Read More
Jul. 20, 2021:The Minnesota Medicaid program has served as an important safety net program during the COVID-19 crisis. As a countercyclical program, Medicaid enrollment/spending increases when the economy is in decline (such as during a pandemic or a recession), as employer-sponsored insurance decreases and the...Read More
Jul. 19, 2021:Update 6: June 9 to June 21
The COVID-19 vaccines promise to help protect individual Americans against infection and eventually provide population-level herd immunity. After several months of rolling out the various one and two-shot COVID-19 vaccines, which have included hiccups from the Johnson...Read More
Jul. 15, 2021:Fentanyl- and methamphetamine-type drugs surged roughly 50 percent in 2020
Drug overdose deaths surged in the United States during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing nearly 30 percent in just 12 months. Provisional data recently published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control...Read More
Jul. 09, 2021: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 2020. Click the report below to flip through our 2020 Annual Report.
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Jul. 01, 2021:As rates of COVID vaccination increase around the world and the nation, attention is beginning to turn toward addressing more of the non-physical impacts and effects of the virus, such as the mental health burdens borne by large segments of the population.1
In a new issue brief released this...Read More
Jul. 01, 2021:SHADAC Director Dr. Lynn Blewett and SHADAC Researchers Colin Planalp and Robert Hest used data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey (HPS) to study rates of anxiety and depression in the U.S. adult population for the months of April to December 2020.
The brief looks at both...Read More
Jun. 20, 2021:This report describes the data collection process and methodology behind the Minnesota Health Access Survey (MNHA), emphasizing the most recent administration of the survey completed in 2019. The 2019 MNHA represents a break in series, involving for the first time the blending of two sample frames...Read More
Jun. 14, 2021:Even before 2020, alcohol-involved deaths reached a modern record
Considering the well-deserved attention paid to the opioid crisis in recent years, few people might guess that rates of alcohol-involved deaths were as high as or higher than opioid overdose death rates in nearly half of states (...Read More
Jun. 11, 2021:The 2021 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) is taking place virtually this week from June 14-17. Researcher and State Health Compare manager Robert Hest will be presenting on behalf of SHADAC at the national conference. His presentations include:
Trends in Health Insurance...Read More
Jun. 08, 2021:
As states have faced ongoing pressure to respond to the evolving COVID-19 crisis, state public health funding levels have come under scrutiny. Funding for public health indicates not only the extent to which a state prioritizes public health infrastructure but also the state’s preparedness for...Read More
Jun. 05, 2021:The COVID-19 pandemic is having broad-ranging impacts on the health and economic security of Americans across the country, and policymakers, among others, are eager to understand the extent of these impacts and how they vary across states and key subpopulations such as race/ethnicity, given the...Read More