What We're Learning | Evidence for Action

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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Work Requirements and Safety-Net Program Participation

In a cohort study, SNAP work requirements led to substantial reductions in SNAP coverage, especially for the most clinically and socioeconomically vulnerable. Work requirements had little effect on Medicaid coverage, suggesting they did not lead to sufficient increases in employment to transition beneficiaries off the broader safety net.

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The Family and Pregnancy Pop-Up Village: Developing a one-stop shop of services to reduce pregnancy care-related inequities in San Francisco

Centering the needs of pregnant people and their families' and forming equitable collaborations between community and institutional partners can meaningfully transform care delivery systems and comprehensively meet the needs of the entire community.

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Mental Health Treatment Rates During Pregnancy and Post Partum in US Military Service Members

US Army and Navy service members went to fewer therapy sessions during pregnancy and while on leave following birth, especially if they had already received mental health treatment before. Birthing parents were more likely to go back to therapy once they started working again.

Health Care Services & Systems

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Effects of School-Based Mental Health Services on Youth Outcomes

The project team found that school-based mental health services increased average outpatient mental health service use and reduced self-reported suicide attempts.

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Private Law Alternatives to the Individual Mandate

Dr. Epstein discusses potential strategies to increase insurance sign ups, including altering the ways insurance plans work (e.g., 5 year plans versus single year plans) or changing the ways that insurance plans are marketed (moral framing versus economic self-interest framing).

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Can moral framing drive insurance enrollment in the United States?

Results show that ads with moral framing, rather than economic self-interest framing, may lead to more Americans signing up for health insurance.

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Extending Delivery Coverage to Include Prenatal Care for Low-Income, Immigrant Women Is a Cost-Effective Strategy

Extending prenatal care to low-income, immigrant women, regardless of citizenship status, is a cost-effective and life-saving strategy.

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Bipartisan Policy Center Briefing: Overcoming Health Care Challenges in Immigrant Communities

During the Bipartisan Policy briefing, Overcoming Health Care Challenges in Immigrant Communities, panelists discussed challenges to immigrant communities accessing health care and social services—including cultural, linguistic, coverage, and other barriers—and how this impacts broader population health and well-being.

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Expanding Prenatal Care to Unauthorized Immigrant Women and the Effects on Infant Health

Prenatal care expansion increased gestational diabetes screenings, child vaccination rates, and prenatal visits, and reduced infant mortality and extremely low birth weights.

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Oregon’s Expansion of Prenatal Care Improved Utilization Among Immigrant Women

Expansion of prenatal care to undocumented immigrants led to increases in adequate care among all and high-risk pregnancies, as well as increased diagnosis of gestational diabetes, pre-existing diabetes mellitus, hypertension, history of preterm birth, and poor fetal growth.

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Immigration policies can make the difference between life and death for newborn US children

The health of citizen children born to undocumented immigrants is closely tied to local, state, and federal immigration policies.

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Immigration, Pregnancy, and Heath Insurance: New Evidence and Ongoing Debate

With approximately 1 in 15 US children born to undocumented immigrant parents, interventions expanding access to prenatal care have the potential to make a big difference to maternal and child health.

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