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Prevalence and disparities in excessive alcohol use among U.S. adults

Image    17 million report heavy drinking,    40 million report binge drinking In the past several years, researchers have shone new light on the public health threat of alcohol consumption in the United States. Nationally, life… Read More

2020 U.S. alcohol-involved deaths climbed by 26.6%, and drug overdose deaths by 30.6%

Size of alcohol, drug overdose death increases in first pandemic year were unparalleled With the recent release of 2020 mortality data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), we now know that fears that the pandemic could result in increased drug and alcohol deaths were well… Read More

State Health Compare: State-Level Data Resources on Measures of Health Equity (Part Two - Health Behaviors, Health Outcomes, Social and Economic Factors)

Health equity and social determinants of health (SDOH) are rapidly growing fields of public health research. SHADAC researchers believe that making strides toward achieving health equity depends equally on better understanding health disparities as well as on making concerted, measurable efforts… Read More

California's Implementation of the Affordable Care Act: How Medi-Cal expansion has impacted health care access and health status for low-income Californians

Natalie Schwehr, SHADAC Senior Research Associate, was invited by the Center of California Studies at Sacramento State University to give a webinar presentation on Friday, January 28, as part of their "Envisioning California Speaker Series." Dr. Schwehr presented a study conducted by herself and… Read More

Expert Perspective and Issue Brief: Tracking the Data on Medicaid’s Continuous Coverage Unwinding (State Health & Value Strategies Cross-Post)

The following content is cross-posted from State Health and Value Strategies published on January 21, 2022. Authors: Emily Zylla, Elizabeth Lukanen, and Lindsey Theis, SHADAC Image Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Plan (CHIP) programs… Read More

State Health Insurance Program Names: 2021

Image This Excel file includes the names of state-sponsored health insurance programs for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. It documents program names familiar to enrollees; therefore it includes colloquial as well as official… Read More

Comparing Federal Government Surveys That Count the Uninsured: 2021

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

NHIS: National Rates of Health Insurance Coverage for Third Quarter of 2021 Statistically Unchanged from 2020

On Wednesday, January 19, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) announced that health insurance coverage estimates from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) Early Release Program are now available for Quarter 3 of 2021 (July-September) At a high level, the new estimates show no… Read More

(Webinar) An Annual Conversation with the U.S. Census Bureau: Addressing Data Quality Challenges in the 2020 American Community Survey

Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have been demonstrably far reaching and, by now, fairly well documented. One facet of this COVID-related disruption that has recently come to light is the interruption to data collection processes and response patterns for yearly federal… Read More

Coverage During a Crisis: Insured Rate for Californians Hits Historic High in First Year of COVID-19 Pandemic (CHCF Cross Post)

The following content is cross-posted from California Health Care Foundation. It was first published on January 12, 2022. Author: Lacey Hartman, Senior Research Fellow, SHADAC Despite widespread concern that economic fallout from the pandemic could slow California’s progress… Read More

Race/Ethnicity Data in CMS Medicaid (T-MSIS) Analytic Files Updated December 2021 – Features 2019 Data

This blog was updated in January 2023 to feature 2020 TMSIS data files and can be found here. Originally published August 2020 As the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis evolves, it has become increasingly clear that vulnerable subpopulations are being disproportionately impacted, both in terms of… Read More

Measuring State-level Disparities in Unhealthy Days (infographics)

Although health disparities in the United States have been common knowledge among public health professionals for years, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted this problem with vivid urgency. The disproportionate impact of the pandemic on certain segments of the population—such as higher infection and… Read More

State Health Compare: State-Level Data Resources on Measures of Health Equity (Part One - Coverage, Affordability and Cost of Care, Access to Care, and Quality of Care)

Health equity and social determinants of health (SDOH) are rapidly growing fields of public health research. SHADAC researchers believe that making strides toward achieving health equity depends equally on better understanding health disparities as well as on making concerted, measurable efforts… Read More

SHADAC’s New State Survey Research Resource Page

Image Early this fall, SHADAC updated its State Survey Research Activity web page using an interactive infographic (preview to the right) to allow users to easily identify the type and frequency of state-level health insurance surveys (household and/… Read More

NHIS: Early Release Estimates for January-June 2021 Show Continued Significant Changes in Public and Private Coverage across All Groups

A report of health insurance coverage estimates for the first half of 2021 (January to June) from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) has just been released by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) as part of the NHIS Early Release Program. Comparing the 2021 estimates… Read More

Monitoring Childhood Poverty during and after COVID-19

Childhood poverty has been brought to the forefront during the COVID-19 pandemic, with pandemic restrictions making it harder for families with low incomes to meet the needs of their children.1 As schools switched to distance learning, many children from low-income households faced new or… Read More

U.S. Census Bureau Analytic Report Shows Significant Non-Response Bias in the 2020 American Community Survey

The U.S. Census Bureau recently released an analytical report that details and evaluates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on data collection and data quality in the 2020 American Community Survey (ACS) and provides evidence supporting its decision to release the 2020 ACS 1-Year estimates and… Read More

Borrowing Proven Policy Strategies to Vaccinate Kids Against COVID-19

With the authorization of the first COVID-19 vaccine for children age five and older, most kids in the United States are now eligible to be immunized. Recent experience with other vaccines—measles and chickenpox, for example—shows the country is capable of vaccinating kids widely and equitably… Read More

Brief: Strategies to Increase Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

Image Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have been demonstrably far-ranging, including changes to substance use-related behaviors.1 Evidence indicates that opioid use disorders (OUDs), overdoses, and overdose deaths grew as a result of COVID-19-… Read More

Resource: Analysis from the SHADAC COVID-19 Survey

What is the SHADAC COVID-19 Survey?The SHADAC COVID-19 Survey is a two-part survey initially designed by our researchers* to measure the impacts of the novel coronavirus on a variety of experiences for adults in the United States. The survey was conducted as part of the AmeriSpeak omnibus survey… Read More