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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.
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.
The project team found that school-based mental health services increased average outpatient mental health service use and reduced self-reported suicide attempts.
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).
Extending prenatal care to low-income, immigrant women, regardless of citizenship status, is a cost-effective and life-saving strategy.