221: Massachusetts Opioid Strategy
Public Health Review Morning Edition
English - July 18, 2022 09:00 - 4 minutes - 6.62 MB - ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsMedicine Health & Fitness Government healthcare health healthnews news publichealth Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Margret Cooke, Commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, reflects on new preliminary data showing possible improvement this year for opioid-related overdose deaths; Dr. Amy Ladley, the State Perinatal Quality Program Manager for the Bureau of Family Health in Louisiana, discusses a relatively new effort working with 47 of Louisiana’s 49 birthing hospitals on at least one of four initiatives to improve care for pregnant and postpartum people struggling with opioid use; ASTHO and the de Beaumont Foundation have been working on the latest version of the PHWins survey and the results are due out in just a few weeks; and ASTHO’s Health Equity Summit 2022 is coming up on Wednesday, July 27th.
Mass.gov News Release: Massachusetts responds to the opioid epidemic
Partners for Family Health Louisiana Webpage: Louisiana Perinatal Quality Collaborative (LaPQC)
ASTHO Health Equity Summit Registration
ASTHO Webpage: National Survey - Public Health Professionals Pushed to Limit