Health Affairs Blog : "If a state chooses to expand its Medicaid program, low-income women of childbearing age would be able to obtain coverage before and between pregnancies, offering them access to services that could improve their overall and reproductive health."

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These essential services include screening for high blood pressure and chronic conditions, tobacco cessation, weight-loss programs to reduce the risk of gestational diabetes, substance-abuse counseling, birth control to space pregnancies appropriately, and other preventive and therapeutic care.  Each of these would reduce demonstrated risk factors for poor pregnancy and birth outcomes.

Health Affairs Blog
Medicaid Expansion: Benefits For Women of Childbearing Age And Their Children
by Cynthia Pellegrini and Nicole Garro
February 22nd, 2013


Medicaid Expansion: Benefits For Women of Childbearing Age And Their Children


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