The Department of Health & Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has awarded a three-year demonstration grant for not-for-profit entities to Fairview Health Services in Minneapolis to extend a national collaborative that is reducing birth-related injuries...
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AHRQ Grant Will Enable Premier Healthcare Alliance Perinatal Safety Initiative To Continue Via Award To Fairview Health Services
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Low-Cost Program Encourages Latina Moms To Seek Postpartum Care
Latinas participating in an educational intervention program were two-and-a-half times more likely to seek postpartum care than were those who did not have access to a similar program, a new study finds...
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Opinion Piece Discusses Shortcomings Of U.S. Maternity Leave Laws
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's recent decision that a state law does not protect a woman's job after more than eight weeks of maternity leave "threatens to make employers only more persnickety about parental-leave arrangements," author Sharon Lerner writes in a Slate opinion piece...
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Health Visitors Can Prevent Postnatal Depression Says Pioneering New Study
The world's first ever analysis of data from a full scale clinical trial in adults shows that training Health Visitors to assess and psychologically support mothers after childbirth can prevent the development of depression over the following year...
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Poor Maternity Leave Policies Reflect U.S. Societal Values, Boston Globe Columnist Writes
"As critical as maternity leave is to babies' and mothers' health, it's something that's left up to luck: the size of your company, the generosity of your boss, [and] the salary (or existence) of your spouse," Boston Globe columnist Joanna Weiss writes...
