Modern Healthcare (10/7, Subscription Publication) runs a piece from The 19th News, reporting, “Expanding Medicaid and telehealth, investing in community-based care services, and providing paid leave and child care will all help address negative mental health outcomes for pregnant people and new parents,” experts concluded in a paper (10/4) published in the October issue of the journal Health Affairs. The authors of the paper “focus on six ways they say policy would better support people during and after pregnancy.” Such “moves would help prevent potentially harmful mental health conditions, in addition to properly treating them, they said.”
Related Links:
— “Paid leave, healthcare access and child care: How policy can protect parents’ mental health, Modern Healthcare, October 7, 2021