Sidebar: The Fourth Trimester: Promising Possibilities through Postpartum Medicaid Coverage Expansion

Infant Mortality and Life Expectancy: The Inequitable Loss of Potential Life

“…Johnson and colleagues highlight the enormity of factors affecting perinatal health, the successes of the 2016-2020 state Perinatal Health Strategic Plan implementation, future plans, and other policy initiatives toward improving perinatal health [19]. Avram and Swartz provide an update about the promise of expanded postpartum Medicaid coverage, recently passed in North Carolina [20]. Hatcher shares an update on the work of the Child Fatality Task Force toward reducing infant mortality, suicide rates, and gun deaths through the advancement of public policy [21].…”