The pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated inequitable patient and provider experiences with maternal health care. This brief explores promising strategies providers, states, advocates, and communities could consider both during and after the pandemic.
This brief explores if and how our current data systems provide the information needed to track inequities in maternal health outcomes, as well as which data collection efforts must be prioritized to establish accountability and reduce inequities during and after the pandemic.
Families with young children are among the hardest hit by COVID-19’s economic fallout, which has included job loss, food insecurity, and missed or delayed health care. The greatest hardship falls on communities of color.
One in four families with school-age children reported household food insecurity in September, with Black parents reporting almost triple the rate of food insecurity as white parents.
Many renters may face more difficulty as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eviction moratorium approaches its January 31 expiration. New data show current funding levels will not be enough to help renters keep their homes.
The Health Insurance Policy Simulation Model provides a detailed microsimulation of the health care system and is designed to estimate the cost and coverage effects of proposed health care policy options. This report describes the model’s methodology and presents its 2020 current-law baseline.
