Category: Population Health
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Expanding Access Through Self-Testing: A Strategy to Reduce Congenital Syphilis in Mississippi
Health Policy Memo | Liang-Yuan (Claire) Lin | September 30th, 2025 To download the print-friendly document, click here. Winner of the University of Mississippi’s 2025 Terence E. Downer Scholarship This scholarship honors Terence E. Downer, who worked for 31 years at Johnson and Johnson and died after a short battle…
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Uninsured Adults by County | 2025 Update
To download the print-friendly version, click here. | To view previous publications, click here. This fact sheet provides the number and percentage of adults, ages 18-64, without health insurance at the county level in Mississippi. The most recent data for 2023 is compared to data for the year 2020. Under…
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Mississippi 2025 County Rankings | Issue Brief 2025
For the past 15 years, the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, part of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, has led the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, with primary funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This program provides data to help local communities improve…
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A 2024 Profile of Health Insurance Coverage for Mississippi Children: 2021-2022 Data
To download the print-friendly version, click here. | To view prieviously published chartbooks, click here. Key Points Source Researchers from the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) at the University of Minnesota compiled Mississippi data from the 2021 and 2022 United States Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) at…
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A 2024 Profile of Health Insurance Coverage for Mississippi Adults: 2021-2022 Data
To download the print-friendly version, click here. | To view this and previous publications, click here. Key Points Source Researchers from the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) at the University of Minnesota compiled Mississippi data from the 2021 and 2022 United States Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS)…
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Early Intervention Task Force 2023 & 2024
The Center for Mississippi Health Policy, as of 2024, is providing support to the Early Intervention Task Force, established by Senate Bill 2167, 2023 Legislative Session, to study and report on the IDEA Part C Early Intervention System in Mississippi. The Mississippi Legislative Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review Committee (PEER)…
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Medicaid Expansion Study
The Center for Mississippi Health Policy (Center) is a non-partisan, nonprofit research group with the purpose of providing research and data to inform the planning, decision-making, and operations of health policy in Mississippi. Since the option for states to expand Medicaid eligibility presented itself in 2014, a major question for…
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Early Intervention Task Force, Supporting Information & Data | 2023 Report
To view the print-friendly version, click here. The Center for Mississippi Health Policy is providing supporting information to the Early Intervention Task Force established by Senate Bill 2167, 2023 Legislative Session, to study and report on the IDEA Part C Early Intervention System in Mississippi. The Mississippi Legislative Performance Evaluation…
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Economic Impact of Expanded Health Insurance Coverage for Mississippians Below 138% of the Federal Poverty Level | Issue Brief 2022
To view the print-friendly version, click here. | To view the Technical Report from Hilltop, click here. | To view the Literature Review, click here. | To view the Summary Report, click here. Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), states have been granted the option of expanding…
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Drug Overdose Deaths in Mississippi
Up 52.3% from April 2020 to April 2021The National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Vital Statistics Rapid Release of Provisional Drug Overdose Death Counts at the US and State level.