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Lucinda Macaringue, Quality Assurance Manager, PSI Mozambique; and Paul Bouanchaud, Senior Research Advisor, PSI   The emerging global availability of effective COVID-19 vaccines has inspired a great deal of excitement. In Mozambique, vaccination of health workers began in March, and the country expects to have received more than 2 million doses by May. But the work to protect populations from COVID-19 doesn’t end with the development and delivery of clinically effective vaccines. A vaccine will only protect a population if enough people are willing to get it—and vac...

 E-Mail CORVALLIS, Ore. -- A recent study from Oregon State University found that after Oregon expanded Medicaid in 2014, more women were able to receive insurance coverage for abortion services, rather than paying out of pocket. In analyzing Medicaid claims data and other medical records, researchers found that the Medicaid-financed share of total abortions increased each of the first three years following the state's Medicaid expansion. The incidence of Medicaid-financed abortions increased 18% in 2014, then 7% each in 2015 and 2016. The total number of abortions in the state did not ris...

Date Time OSU studies find Oregon’s Medicaid expansion improved prenatal care access, birth outcomes CORVALLIS, Ore. – A pair of recent studies from Oregon State University found that Oregon’s Medicaid expansion in 2014 has led to increased prenatal care among low-income women, as well as improved health outcomes for newborn babies. In the three years after the expansion, one study found that Oregon saw an almost 2 percentage point increase in first trimester prenatal care utilization, relative to 18% of the pre-expansion population who lacked any access to prenatal care in the earlier ...