Monthly Archives: June 2020

Protecting maternal and child health during an economic crisis: Lessons learned from the Great Recession

As the coronavirus pandemic causes global economic slowdowns, looking back to the Great Recession a decade ago can help plan for and mitigate some of the impacts. In this blog post, the author of a series of papers studying maternal and child health disparities during the Great Recession in the U.S., the most recent of which was published last month in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, discusses what was learned about factors associated with greater or lesser disparities.

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