Category: Population Health
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Postpartum Medicaid | 2021 Issue Brief
Addressing gaps in coverage to improve maternal health For the print-friendly version, click here. Receiving medical care at all stages of childbearing from preconception and pregnancy to delivery and postpartum has implications for women’s health, infant health, and later episodes of pregnancy. This brief explores the postpartum period when some…
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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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Midwifery Care & Birth Centers | 2020 Issue Brief
To download the print-friendly version, click here. As Mississippians cope with a lack of obstetric services in over half of counties in the state, an increasing number of women desire to have less-medicalized births outside of a typical hospital setting. The number of planned births that occurred outside of a…
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Youth Sports-Related Concussion | 2019 Issue Brief
To download the print-friendly version of this issue brief, click here. Key Points What Is a Concussion?A concussion is an injury caused by direct or indirect force to the brain precipitating a disruption of brain function accompanied by a range of symptoms and signs of altered cognitive function. Though the…
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Contraceptive Access, Choice, & Utilization | 2019 Issue Brief
A Survey of Mississippi Women Mississippi women have historically reported high rates of unintended pregnancy. The Affordable Care Act and state-level health policies have broadened access to reproductive health services and contraception in recent years benefitting Mississippians of all incomes. Access to contraception including the most effective reversible forms of…
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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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Publicly Funded Contraceptive Services | 2018 Factsheet
Mississippi County-Level DataIn Mississippi, more than half of women of childbearing age are estimated to be avoiding pregnancy and in need of contraceptive services. Twenty percent of women ages 15-44 are uninsured, meaning they are without access to quality contraception without cost-sharing through public or private health insurance. However, they…
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Mississippi Health Information Network (MS-HIN) | 2018 Issue Brief
The Mississippi Health Information Network (MSHIN) dissolved in 2019 after not being reauthorized by the State Legislature. To learn more about MSHIN while in operation please read below and to learn more about HIEs currently in operation visit SHIEC. The shortfalls of documenting health care services in paper medical records were realized…
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Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives | 2018 Issue Brief
A Survey of Mississippi Health Care Providers For the print-friendly version, click here. | To download the report, click here. Women in Mississippi experience high rates of unintended pregnancy, which can be associated with the use of less effective methods of contraception. In an effort to better understand the role…