Presentation by ELizabeth Lukanen at the 2015 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM), June 14-16, 2015, in Minneapolis, MN.

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Fried, B., Kemmick Pintor, J., Graven, P., & Blewett, L.A. 2014. "Implementing Federal Health Reform in the States: Who Is Included and Excluded and What Are Their Characteristics?" Health Affairs. Published online before print. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.12232

Blewett, L.A., & Hempstead. K. 2014. "The Need for State Health Services and Policy Research." Health Services Research, 49(6.1): 2035-2040. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.12250

The State Health Access Reform Evaluation (SHARE) is a National Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) created to support the evaluation of health policy reform at the state level and develop an evidence-based resource to inform health reform efforts in the future.  SHARE has awarded 43 grants since its inception. This document provides an overview of these grants, with a primary focus on the most recent round of funding, which was awarded in 2014.

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This report takes a high-level look at the data sources behind research and evaluation findings from the State Health Access Reform Evaluation (SHARE) grant program. 

Based on a review of SHARE grantee documentation and products, data sources used in monitoring and evaluating health reform fall into four major categories: household survey data, medical claims data, enrollment data, and qualitative data. 

This report identifies each of these data sources, examines how the sources were used, and details researcher insights from the collection and/or use of such data to support SHARE research. The purpose of this summary is to highlight the type of data that can be used for rigorous state policy research and the advantages and disadvantages of each data source.

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