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The Michigan Department of Health is looking for public feedback.
Residents can comment on a Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant.
The Title V program addresses low–risk cesarean delivery, infant safe sleep, transitions for youth with special health care needs to adult health care and more.
The Title V application period is for services from October 1 2021 to September 30 2022.
Given the remarkable advancements we have made across nearly every aspect of health care in the last quarter-century, it is shocking that women in the U.S. are more likely to suffer a pregnancy-related death today than in the 1990s. The danger is even greater for women of color. Black women are at least three times more likely than white women to die as a result of pregnancy; in states such as Illinois their risk is six times greater.
Health equity initiatives in the U.S.
See how organizations across the country are working to center health equity and name racism as a barrier to equity in their COVID-19 responses.
Overview: 2022 Fiscal Year Budget for the Department of Public Health
Gov. Brian Kemp proposed a 2022 budget of $269.8 million in state general funds for the Department of Public Health (DPH). The agency is also set to receive $13.7 million from a tobacco industry legal settlement and $1.4 million from the Brain and Spinal Injury Trust Fund. In addition to these state funds, the proposed budget includes $396 million in federal funds. About 57 percent of the agency’s total budget comes from the federal government through programs such as Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), the Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Block Grant (TANF).
Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2021 - 7:16am
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The longstanding gaps in public health, health care delivery and health insurance systems that worsened COVID-19 s impact remain and could leave the U.S. vulnerable to the next pandemic.
The halting progress of coronavirus vaccines has injected a few CCs of hope into the pandemic s ongoing awfulness. But the same longstanding gaps in public health, health care delivery and health insurance systems that worsened COVID-19 s impact remain and could leave the U.S. vulnerable to the next pandemic.
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Part 1: Holes In The Dike
When a pandemic floods American shores, the U.S. relies on scientific experts and public health officials to work the proverbial pumps and fill the figurative sandbags. That goes double for those who live, learn, work and play in the nation s vulnerable socioeconomic lowlands.
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