The Arkansas Healthcare Transparency Initiative (HTI) was established in 2015 to provide a source of informative healthcare data to support consumers, researchers, and policymakers. The Arkansas All-Payer Claims Database (APCD) is one of the tools in the HTI used to accomplish these efforts.
This infographic illustrates information about e-cigarette use among Arkansas public school students and provides potential state policy options for addressing youth e-cigarette use. This is part of ACHI’s 100 Arkansans initiative.
Since the 2003-04 school year, ACHI has been analyzing and reporting on public school students’ body mass index (BMI) measurements and weight status to study trends. Recently, our focus has shifted to identifying individual and neighborhood-level characteristics associated with childhood obesity. We also study how weight status in young children changes as children get older. The goal of this research is to help guide the development of public policies to combat the childhood obesity epidemic.
In response to the opioid epidemic, the Arkansas General Assembly passed Act 651 of 2021, which requires a co-prescription of naloxone in certain situations for a person who does not have an existing prescription. The law was preceded by Act 284 of 2017, which authorized pharmacists to order, dispense, and administer naloxone to individuals without a prescription under a state protocol.
This map depicts the locations of rural hospital closures between January 2010 and May 2019 in Arkansas and in neighboring states that have not expanded Medicaid.
