nurse-family partnerships

Investing in children's health: Home visit programs

Education lborkowski | January 27, 2014

I wrote last week about the Prevention and Public Health Fund, which the Affordable Care Act (ACA) created to invest in improving overall population health – with the hope that improved health will help slow the growth of healthcare costs. Another provision of the ACA that aims to reduce future healthcare costs is “Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Programs” (Section 2951). Three studies published in the latest supplemental issue of the American Journal of Public Health address this type of program. Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) programs send…