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Whitmer signs legislation allowing Michigan pharmacists to prescribe birth control

The Hill

Whitmer signed a bundle of other bills aimed at improving maternal health and increasing reproductive health care access in the state. Those bills include a piece of legislation making it easier to donate breast milk and another expanding maternal mental health services to postpartum women.

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Fewer NC children dying at the hands of a parent or caregiver, new report shows

NC Health News

While state funding for the centers was recently increased, federal funding has been decreasing, NC Health News has reported. Deana Joy, executive director of Child Advocacy Centers of North Carolina , told NC Health News last year that these services are vital, because the need for supports has kept growing in the state.

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Moving beyond “vaguely interested”. Wanless 20 years on.

Sheffield DPH

A decent example of how a sustained, multilevel, and multicomponent intervention can impact a complex health and social issue, with high cost-effectiveness Alison Hadley – Implementing the United Kingdom’s ten-year teenage pregnancy strategy for England (1999-2010): How was this done and what did it achieve?

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From abortion to Hurricane Helene to medical debt, here’s what drew readers to NC Health News in 2024

NC Health News

Mental health advocates argue that instead of relying on these problematic residential facilities, the focus should be on expanding community-based mental health services to help people before their symptoms escalate into a crisis. As leadership in the U.S. North Carolinians who came to D.C.

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Mass layoffs at CDC hit public health, economy in Atlanta

HEALTHBEAT

Funding cuts hit state health departments HHS last week cancelled billions in grants to state and local health departments, including funding initially provided for Covid relief and funds for mental health services.

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What’s coming for 2025? NC Health News reporters look ahead into health policy for the new year.

NC Health News

Other coverage of reproductive health over the coming year will include how communities navigate maternity care deserts. For years state health leaders have explained how people in this condition end up in state-owned psychiatric facilities for long periods of time, often occupying beds that could be used for members of the community.

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10 Ways an ACA Repeal Could Impact Our Health

Black Health Matters

Under a second Trump administration, in the absence of Roe vs Wade protections, women who live in states with abortion bans will have less access to reproductive health care, and this would worsen the already dire racial disparities in maternal deaths among Black women.”