Who Delivers Maternal and Child Health Services? The Contributions of Public Health and Other Community Partners.

ABSTRACT: Policy Points Local health departments with direct maternal and child health service provisions exhibit greater social service collaboration, thereby enhancing community capacity to improve health care access and social determinant support. These findings may prioritize collaboration as a community-based effort to reduce disparities in maternal and child health and chronic disease.

Context

Improving maternal and child health (MCH) care in the United States requires solutions to address care access and the social determinants that contribute to health disparities. Direct service provision of MCH services by local health departments (LHDs) may substitute or complement public health services provided by other community organizations, impacting local service delivery capacity. We measur

SUBMITTER: Quinlan TAG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10037689 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature