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Health Disparities by Race and Ethnicity during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Current Evidence and Policy Approaches
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted stark health disparities among Black, Hispanic, Native American, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander populations in several areas, including infections, hospitalizations, death rates, and vaccination rates. This issue brief describes current evidence related to COVID-19 related health disparities, and it includes potential policy solutions to improve health…
State, County, and Local Estimates of the Uninsured Population: Prevalence and Key Demographic Features
UPDATE November 18, 2022: Uninsured Tables with 2021 American Community Survey data is now available.State and Local Estimates of the Uninsured Population in the U.S. Using the Census Bureau’s 2019 American Community SurveyMethodological DescriptionMarch 12, 2021
Medicaid Demonstrations and Impacts on Health Coverage: A Review of the Evidence
This issue brief examines the effects on coverage and access to care of policies in four major areas of state Medicaid section 1115 demonstrations:Work requirements (also referred to as “community engagement”),Healthy behavior incentive programs,Health savings account-like arrangements, andCapped federal funding and other financing changes.
Common Principles and Emerging Practices in Social Capital
Social capital – or the value that arises from connections, networks, and relationships – can help human services programs improve participant outcomes. The U.S.
Virtual Human Services for Different Populations
Interviews with program administrators and frontline workers across a range of human services programs early in the COVID-19 pandemic offered rich information about how well virtual service delivery worked for different types of participants. Virtual services easily and effectively met the needs of some participants, while virtual delivery did not fit as seamlessly into others’ lives, given their…
Choosing Platforms for Virtual Human Services Delivery
Interviews with program administrators and frontline workers across a range of human services programs early in the COVID-19 pandemic provided great insight into the tradeoffs and relative advantages of choosing virtual platforms to administer services from. Technology plays a major role in determining the accessibility and effectiveness of virtual services and requires intentional decisions to…
Easy or Hard? Delivering Different Types of Human Services Virtually
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many human services programs rapidly shifted their service delivery from primarily or exclusively in person to mostly or entirely virtual (via phone, video call, text, email, etc.) with varying degrees of perceived success. Some services (e.g., emergency shelter, distribution of food/diapers) simply must be administered in person. However, other human…
Lessons Learned from Virtual Human Services during COVID-19
Interviews with program administrators and frontline workers across a range of human services programs early in the COVID-19 pandemic provided key takeaways to help promote effective, accessible, and equitable virtual service delivery. This brief illustrates initial lessons learned across various elements of virtual service delivery, including tips for best meeting participant needs and…
Trends in the Utilization of Emergency Department Services, 2009-2018
This report to Congress analyzed 10 years of data to look at trends in emergency department utilization at the national and state levels. The report analyzes three categories of utilization:
Health Conditions Among Individuals with a History of Homelessness Research Brief
Health Conditions Among Individuals with a History of HomelessnessASPE RESEARCH BRIEFHarper Sutherland, Mir M. Ali, and Emily RosenoffU.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Freeing Children for Adoption within the Adoption and Safe Families Act Timeline
Permanency, that is ensuring children have long-term, enduring connections to family or other caring adults, is one of the three primary goals of the child welfare system, along with safety and child well-being. In order to achieve permanency for children in foster care who are unlikely to return home, federal law requires, with limited exceptions, that state child welfare agencies file for…
Trends in the U.S. Uninsured Population, 2010-2020
Newly released estimates from the National Health Interview Survey show that 11.1 percent of U.S. residents (or 30.0 million) under age 65 lacked health insurance as of January-June 2020. This number reflects a sharp decline in the number of uninsured Americans since 2010, before implementation of the Affordable Care Act's large coverage expansions. The implementation of the Affordable Care Act…
Report to Congress
Welfare Indicators and Risk Factors: Nineteenth Report to Congress
This report provides welfare dependence indicators through 2017 for most indicators and through 2018 for other indicators, reflecting changes that have taken place since enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in 1996.
Report to Congress
Welfare Indicators and Risk Factors: Eighteenth Report to Congress
This report provides welfare dependence indicators through 2016 for most indicators and through 2017 for some indicators, reflecting changes that have taken place since enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in 1996.
Initial Implementation of the 2014 Reauthorization of the Child Care and Development Block Grant
This project examines the initial effects of policy changes required by the 2014 reauthorization of the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) program as well as the subsequent CCDF final rule published in September 2016 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Economic Hardship and Medicaid Enrollment in Later Life: Assessing the Impact of Disability, Health, and Marital Status Shocks
Richard W. Johnson and Melissa M. Favreault
Urban Institute
January 2021
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Extended LTSS Utilization Makes Older Adults More Reliant on Medicaid Issue Brief
Extended LTSS Utilization Makes Older Adults More Reliant on Medicaid Issue Brief ASPE ISSUE BRIEF Richard W. Johnson and Melissa M. Favreault Urban Institute Judith Dey, William Marton, and Lauren Anderson U.S. Department of Health and Human Services January 2021 Link to HTML Version (9 PDF pages)
Most Older Adults Are Likely to Need and Use Long-Term Services and Supports Issue Brief
Most Older Adults Are Likely to Need and Use Long-Term Services and Supports ASPE ISSUE BRIEF Richard W. Johnson and Melissa M. Favreault Urban Institute Judith Dey, William Marton, and Lauren Anderson Department of Health and Human Services January 2021 Link to HTML Version (10 PDF pages)
Risk of Economic Hardship Among Older Adults Issue Brief
Risk of Economic Hardship Among Older Adults ASPE ISSUE BRIEF Richard W. Johnson and Melissa M. Favreault Urban Institute Judith Dey, William Marton, and Lauren Anderson Department of Health and Human Services January 2021 Link to HTML Version (10 PDF pages)
The Risk and Costs of Severe Cognitive Impairment at Older Ages: Literature Review and Projection Analyses
The Risk and Costs of Severe Cognitive Impairment at Older Ages: Literature Review and Projection Analyses Melissa M. Favreault and Richard W. Johnson Urban Institute January 2021 Link to HTML Version (85 PDF pages)