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Study finds postpartum care fails to provide key services to women ANI | Updated: Dec 19, 2020 23:31 IST
Massachusetts [US], December 19 (ANI): According to a study by University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers, most women are receiving fewer than half the services recommended during their comprehensive postpartum medical checkup. These findings underscore the importance of efforts to reconceptualise postpartum care to ensure women have access to a range of supports to manage their health during this sensitive period, concludes the study, published Nov. 10 in JAMA Network Open. There is substantial room to improve the delivery of postpartum care.
Authors Kimberley Geissler and Laura Attanasio, both assistant professors of health policy and management in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, were joined in the study by graduate student Brittany Ranchoff and undergraduate Michael Cooper. The study received funding from the