Affiliated with the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) is a multidisciplinary health policy research center with a focus on state policy. The staff’s expertise ranges from economics, statistics and evaluation to sociology and journalism. It values the importance of using sound data to inform policy decisions and strives to produce rigorous, policy-driven analyses. Some things you’ll find:
- State and federal health policy and health reform
- Health insurance exchanges
- Payment and delivery system reform
- Medicaid
- Health systems
- Barriers to coverage and access
- Population health
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Analyses of health care at the state level that go beyond standard indicators of health insurance coverage.
U.S. State Health Equity Reports: The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) offers a look at some states’ reports highlighting health equity. The reports, produced by state public health departments, include data on local health disparities as well as other tools and resources. Although so far, just eight out of 50 states are listed, it shows some states are and could prove a launching point to press other states for similar data. The state reports offered so far are for: Alabama, Hawaii, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, Utah Vermont and Virginia.