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Reducing Opioid Deaths in Missouri Harm Reduction Strategies
This publication explores how adopting additional harm reduction strategies would prevent overdose deaths and stem the increase of such deaths in Missouri. Harm reduction strategies save lives by preventing overdoses and giving individuals more information about the substances they’re using. These methods can also help meet other needs by connecting individuals to health care, addiction,…
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Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs: Another Look at PDMP for Missouri
Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) are databases that monitor the prescribing and dispensing of certain controlled substances. Through these programs, health care providers can review a patient’s prescription history for opioids or other controlled substances and assess the patient’s risk of substance use disorder (SUD) before prescribing a new medication. This prevents patients from obtaining…
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Child Tax Credit Enhancements Under the American Rescue Plan Act
In recent years, there has been a renewed demand for offering direct benefits to families with children to reduce child poverty in the United States. The federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARP), which became law on March 11, 2021, expands the Child Tax Credit (CTC) scope to benefit more families. This tax credit can significantly…
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The Opioid Crisis
Opioids are drugs commonly prescribed by physicians to treat and manage pain. Opioid-based medications include oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine, and fentanyl. Opioids also include the illicit drug heroin, which has a similar effect on the body as prescription opioids. All opioids are highly addictive, and when misused or abused can lead to overdose and death. There…
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Grant Writing Resources
Federal Funding Tools and Resources Grant Development Tools and Resources Best Practices: public health programs, interventions, and policies that have been evaluated, shown to be successful, and have the potential to be adapted and transformed by others working in the same field. Supporting Data: publicly available data sets for community level statistics that can be…
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Most Missouri Residents Support Greater Access to Birth Control
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media contacts: Daniel Waxler Missouri Foundation for Health (314) 345-5580 dwaxler@mffh.org or Leslie Pritchard Missouri Family Health Council, Inc. (573) 694-4898 LPritchard@mfhc.org Most Missouri Residents Support Greater Access to Birth Control New Survey Released by The Right Time Initiative on “Thanks, Birth Control” Day JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI (November 17, 2021) – Three…
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New Age Technology to Cure Old Stigmas
This week marked Mental Illness Awareness Week, and NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, wants a cure. Not just a cure for mental illness, but for the misunderstandings, stereotypes, discrimination, and ignorance that millions of people living with a mental health condition face every day. Call it stigma, a virus that shames them into…
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Learning During Crisis: Access to contraceptive services amid the COVID pandemic
The health care system has experienced unprecedented disruption during the COVID era. In addition to new virus-related challenges, long-standing health equity issues were magnified by the pandemic. For the Foundation’s The Right Time initiative, which aims to increase access to quality contraceptive services, this difficult time also presented a unique opportunity to learn from the…
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Strengthening Missouri’s Harm Reduction Approach
With all that we’ve endured over the past two years with the pandemic, it may have been easy to forget how, prior to COVID, the damage of opioids was tearing families apart. Anxiety and isolation spurred by COVID worsened the deadly impact of what was already a national public health crisis. And now, the pandemic…
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Navigating COVID-19: Health Policy Solutions-Paid Leave
Even before the current pandemic, 33.6 million Americans were without a single day of paid leave to care for themselves or a family member. This is another way that the U.S. trails behind other wealthy countries, and it has significant negative consequences for public health and basic financial security for workers. As we look at the devastation…
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The Future of Universal Health Insurance (Deja Vu)
When I was working at Bellevue Hospital in New York City after college, it felt like national health insurance was “just around the corner.” Multiple plans were introduced in Congress and President Nixon offered his own proposal. Most knowledgeable observers assumed the country would have health insurance for everyone, the only question was which plan…
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Prioritizing Public Health Infrastructure: Why Improvement and Innovation Should Be Front and Center
Since taking office this past summer, Governor Mike Parson’s administration has championed an agenda to improve our state’s workforce and infrastructure. Infrastructure is commonly understood to include roads, bridges, airports, and railways – all of which are the foundation of the economy; but there is another crucial element of Missouri’s infrastructure that’s generating interest and…