Maternal Health Services Set Toolkit for Pharmacists

US Community Pharmacies and Public Health—Building on the COVID-19 Response

“…type="uri">maternal mortality crisis and major inequities in maternal and birth outcomes, national pharmacy organizations came together to create a maternal health tool kit for pharmacists. The tool kit supports include offering preventive services and folic acid supplementation, providing support during pregnancy, and providing postpartum services . A recent US Food and Drug Administration advisory committee vote in support of making oral hormonal contraception available over the counter is a sign of further opportunities ahead; 20 states now allow pharmacists to prescribe hormonal contraception, and past surveys have indicated that as many as two-thirds of women would use pharmacies to obtain contraception.…”