PIBO Utilization Feedback Form Survey

1.Tier I: Addressing Socio-Economic Factors to Improve Birth Outcomes Recommendations

1A: Raise awareness among legislators, leaders and administrators about social determinants of perinatal health and the Life Course perspective

1B: Invest in preventing and mediating early life trauma and violence

1C: Identify opportunities to reduce stressors affecting families in the interconception period.

1D: Increase provider knowledge of community resources addressing social needs (housing, food, childcare, legal aid, and transportation)

1E: Identify and implement strategies aimed at reducing/eliminating institutionalized racism

1F: Create supportive housing initiatives for pregnant women and their families

1G: Integrate financial literacy into family planning and counseling services, as well as in other relevant programs serving MCH populations

3.Tier 3: Protective, Long-Lasting Protection to Individuals Recommendations

3A: Incentivize the provision of Life Course/preconception health (Pay for Performance for education, screening, referrals and treatment)

3B: Integrate Life Course education into provider training

4.Tier 4: Ongoing Clinical Interventions: Evidence-Based Interventions within Clinical Settings

Recommendations

4A: Incentivize the provision of behavioral health services and oral health care (Pay for

Performance for education, screening, referrals and treatment)

4B: Integrate into provider training mental health, social stressors, and trauma education relevant to infants and families

4C: Increase access to midwifery care for all women considered low-risk (medically)

4D: Increase access to childbirth and postpartum doula services (Medicaid reimbursement; adding doula care to existing home visiting services)

5.Tier 5: Education and Counseling: Individual or Public Educational Messages and Support

Recommendations

5A: Scale up (or continue investing) in fatherhood initiatives to increase social support within the family and home environment

5B: Integrate education and preconception and interconception health including mental and oral health, into hospital-based prenatal education models, group prenatal care, as well as home visiting programs

5C: Integrate mental health and well being into Department of Education school health curriculum

5D: Integrate Life Course education into Department of Education school health curriculum

5E: Engage in a broad effort to reduce mental health discrimination among families and communities and increase people’s awareness of the important connection between emotional well-being and physical well-being

5F: Raise consumer awareness about the midwifery model of care and available midwifery options.

6.Emerging Issues

Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS)

Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) use

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PIBO Utilization Feedback Form

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