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census
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As employers attempt to contain health insurance costs, workers and families struggle too
One of the largest and most important parts of our health care system is the role employers play in providing…
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Is the Trump administration ignoring the LGBT community?
The Trump administration recently announced that it would no longer collect information on LGBT older adults in two key national…
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Digging deeper into the Census’ new health insurance stats
Two fellow AHCJ core topic leaders, Susan Heavey and Joseph Burns, have looked at aspects of the recent census report…
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Census release provides more data on poverty and the uninsured
When the U.S. Census Bureau released its annual estimate of income, poverty and health insurance coverage this month, health insurance…
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Get ready for annual U.S. data on poverty, uninsured and income
It’s about that time. If you’ve been covering social determinants for a while, you’ve likely familiarized with the U.S. Census…
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Shifting projections mean U.S. population is aging faster
New Census Bureau numbers forecast that there will be more older people in the United States than previously anticipated. As…
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Find health data at Childstats.gov, a clearinghouse for kid numbers
Time to add another link to your “federal data clearinghouses” folder, if you haven’t already. Childstats.gov, published by the Federal…
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Reporters use county rankings for analysis
On Feb. 17, rankings of the relative health of counties in each American state were released by the Robert Wood…
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Census data on insurance coverage: The recap
The Census Bureau couldn’t have timed the release of its first American Community Survey data on health insurance coverage in…
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Project looks at high price of health care in Dallas
In their “The Cost of Care” package, Dallas Morning News reporters seek to explain why, as Jim Landers says in…