Category: Mississippi Legislature
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Presumptive Medicaid Eligibility For Pregnant Women | 2020 Overview
Its Potential Impact on Mississippi’s Birth Outcomes To download the print-friendly version, click here. Presumptive Eligibility for Pregnant Women (PEPW) is an optional program for states within the Medicaid program. If a state chooses to offer PEPW this means that a low-income woman who is pregnant and seeks medical services…
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Medical Marijuana | 2020 Issue Brief
Mississippi Ballot Initiative 2020 To download the print-friendly version, click here. | To download the source appendix, click here. Currently, 33 states have legalized medical marijuana, Mississippi has added a ballot measure for public vote on the legalization of medical marijuana in 2020. As recently as 2015 over half the…
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Syringe Services Programs | 2019 Issue Brief
Impact on the Spread of Communicable Diseases Syringe Services Programs (SSPs) are community-based programs that provide access to sterile needles and syringes free of cost and facilitate safe disposal of used needles and syringes to prevent the spread of disease. Given the controversial nature of SSPs, they have produced a…
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Mississippi Medicaid Tobacco-Related Cost | 2018 Issue Brief
To read the print-friendly version, click here. | To read the full report, click here. The negative effects of tobacco usage on health have been well studied, andthere is a growing body of evidence documenting the increased risk for specific diseases associated with tobacco use. This higher risk calculates into…
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Sustaining Mississippi’s Trauma Care System | 2016 Issue Brief
To view the print-friendly version of this brief, click here. | To view the 2007 report, click here. Mississippi has enacted policies that are considered a model for trauma system development by other states. Much of the success of Mississippi’s system is derived from a stable funding structure established in…
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Implementing Sex-Related Education In Mississippi | 2015 Issue Brief
To download the print-friendly version, click here. Survey of Teachers A 2011 Mississippi law requiring each school district to adopt a sex-related education policy is set to expire in 2016. This Issue Brief summarizes findings from a 2015 study looking at implementation of sex-related education from the health educator’s standpoint.…
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Countdown to Kindergarten | 2015 Issue Brief
The Impact of Social and Emotional Development on Academic SuccessMS To download the print-friendly version, click here. Before they even step foot in a kindergarten classroom, children are experiencing significant and rapid cognitive, physical, and social-emotional growth that can impact their academic futures. This is also the time when a…
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Childhood Immunizations | 2014 Issue Brief
Mississippi’s Mandatory School Immunization Law Download the print-friendly issue brief here. | Download the references here. Mississippi law mandates that all children attending school must be vaccinated against certain diseases. All states have similar laws but vary in the number and type of exemptions allowed. This Issue Brief summarizes the…
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Implementing Sex-Related Education In Mississippi | 2013 Issue Brief
Survey of Principals To view the print-friendly version, click here | To view the full report, click here. In 2011, the Legislature enacted a law (§37-13-171) that required local school boards to adopt an abstinence-only or abstinence-plus policy for sex-related education by June 30, 2012, and to implement instruction by…
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Medicaid Expansion | 2012 Issue Brief
An Overview of Potential Impacts in Mississippi To download the print-friendly version, click here. | To download the report, click here. | To download the presentation, click here. A more recent report has been published by the center in 2022. The U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2012 decision that upheld the…