Community Health Worker Home Visiting, Birth Outcomes, Maternal Care, and Disparities Among Birthing Individuals With Medicaid Insurance.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Home visiting is recommended to address maternal and infant health disparities but is underused with mixed impacts on birth outcomes. Community health workers, working with nurses and social workers in a combined model, may be a strategy to reach high-risk individuals, improve care and outcomes, and address inequities.

Objective

To assess the association of participation in a home visiting program provided by community health workers working with nurses and social workers (Strong Beginnings) with adverse birth outcomes and maternal care vs usual care among birthing individuals with Medicaid.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective, population-based, propensity score matching cohort study used an administrative linked database, including birth r

SUBMITTER: Meghea CI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10366943 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature