Abstract
The challenges facing today’s maternal and child health (MCH) professionals will require leaders who can adapt to a dramatically changing public health and health care landscape, and also make decisions and move forward with incomplete information [1]. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the Affordable Care Act) outlines promising new opportunities for seamlessly moving between personal health care and population health, which are critical if as a nation we are to achieve the triple aim of health reform of improved quality, increased emphasis on population health, and decreased costs [2, 3]. However, challenges also abound. Areas of concern include shrinking public health budgets, an aging workforce, reorganizations, furloughs, and vacant public health positions for which health agencies are not recruiting [4, 5]. MCH professionals have a long and rich history of successfully overcoming challenges to assure the health of the nation’s mothers and children, as evidenced from the very beginning of support for MCH public health professionals in the US. A History of Support for MCH Professionals: Focusing on Education to Address Persistent and Emerging MCH Public Health Issues
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