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Improving Access to Primary Care for a Growing Latino Population: The Role of Safety Net Providers in the Rural Midwest

Blewett, L.A, M. Casey, and K.T. Call. "Improving Access to Primary Care for a Growing Latino Population: The Role of Safety Net Providers in the Rural Midwest." Journal of Rural Health 20 (3): 237-245. Read More

Survey 101: Basics for Survey Research

Survey 101 covers the five basic steps of survey research: development of proposal, instrumental development and survey design, data collection, post-collection processing, and analysis and dissemination. It describes the key tasks and deliverables of each of the five steps in a list format. June… Read More

Public program crowd-out of private coverage: What are the issues?

This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Synthesis Brief addresses the topic of crowd-out, or public coverage substitution for private insurance. June 2004. Read More

What is Up With Lower Response Rates?

Presentation by Mike Davern titled, "What is Up With Lower Response Rates?" at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, June 5, 2007 in Orlando FL. | View | Upload your own Read More

A Profile of the Uninsured in the U.S. Virgin Islands

SHADAC's State Data Series brief profiling the uninsured in the U.S. Virgin Islands, an unincorporated territory of the United States that has one of the highest rates of uninsurance in the U.S. and its territories, but with little information about their uninsured population. May 2004. Read More

State Efforts to Measure the Health Care Safety Net

Blewett, L.A. and T.J. Beebe. "State Efforts to Measure the Health Care Safety Net." Public Health Reports119 (2): 125-135. Read More

State Experiences in Developing Purchasing Pools

SHADAC's State Data Series brief discusses the effectiveness of state purchasing pools, outlines barriers to successful outcomes, and maps out various ways Montana can encourage the development of viable purchasing pools for small employers and their employees. February 2004. Read More

State Tax Incentives versus Premium Assistance: What’s the Difference?

This SHADAC State Data Series brief compares two private coverage strategies being considered in the state of Montana to reduce the number of low-income workers and families without access to health insurance: (1) providing tax relief through a state tax credit to individuals and employers who… Read More

A Profile of Parents with Publicly Insured Children in Montana

SHADAC's State Data Series brief describes the demographic characteristics and insurance status of parents with publically insured children in the state of Montana, how they get health care for themselves, and the implications for policy. February 2004. Read More

A Comparison of Children's Uninsurance Rates Across the States 1995-97 to 2000-02

SHADAC's Issue Brief #10 compares changes in children’s uninsurance rates across states as an indication of SCHIP success. This is an update of SHADAC's issue brief #6 using more recent data. February 2004. Read More

Monitoring the Uninsured: A State Policy Perspective

Blewett, L.A., M.B. Good, K.T. Call, and M. Davern. "Monitoring the Uninsured: A State Policy Perspective." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 29(1): 107-145. Read More

Do National Surveys Overestimate the Number of Uninsured? Findings from the Medicaid Undercount Experiment in Minnesota

SHADAC's Issue Brief #9 summarizes SHADAC's study of the Medicaid undercount in Minnesota, or the systematic underestimate the number of individuals known through administrative records to be enrolled in Medicaid programs. January 2004. Read More

Patterns of Smoking Among Minnesota's Young Adults

This report is one in a series of collaborative research reports about smoking based on the 2003 Minnesota Adult Tobacco Survey. The objectives of this report are to understand patterns of smoking by young adults between the ages of 18 and 24. January 2004. Read More

Quitting Smoking, 1999-2003: Nicotine Addiction in Minnesota

This report describes Minnesotans’ efforts to quit smoking and provides an update to the findings from the 1999 Adult Tobacco Prevalence Survey that were presented in the July 2001 report, Quitting Smoking: Nicotine Addiction in Minnesota. This report describes quitting smoking patterns among the… Read More

Expanding Access to Health Insurance Coverage Lessens the Burden of Uncompensated Care

SHADAC's Issue Brief #8 describes how SHADAC tested the hypothesis that increased access to insurance results in reduced levels of uncompensated care by assessing the impact that enrollment in the MinnesotaCare program, a state-subsidized insurance program for the working poor, had on levels of… Read More

Hospital Provision of Uncompensated Care and Public Program Enrollment

Blewett, L.A., G. Davidson, M. Brown, and R. Maude-Griffin. "Hospital Provision of Uncompensated Care and Public Program Enrollment." Medical Care Research and Review 60(4): 509-527. Read More

Yet Another Wild Card in State Budget Deliberations

SHADAC's Issue Brief #7 seeks to provide an understanding of the sources of this variability in projecting federal participation in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and to recommend methods that could be employed to reduce the uncertainty for states in future years. October… Read More

Conducting Data Collection Using Focus Groups

Summary and Proceedings from SHADAC's Conference Call with Dr. Richard Krueger on Conducting Data Collection Using Focus Groups. December 2003. Read More

Conducting Focus Groups

A description of the process of conducting focus groups, with information about what focus groups are, why to conduct them, what their advantages and drawbacks are, how to recruit participants, how to decide how many to hold, how to attract the right people, how to decide on moderators, what… Read More

State Variation in SCHIP Allocations: How Much Is There, What Are Its Sources, and Can It Be Reduced?

Davern, M., L.A. Blewett, B. Bershadsky, K.T. Call, and T. Rockwood. "State Variation in SCHIP Allocations: How Much Is There, What Are Its Sources, and Can It Be Reduced?" Inquiry 40(2): 184-187. Read More