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Health Help for Kids
Health Help for Kids is a program designed to provide health education,assistance, and resources to Mississippi parents attempting to obtain and retain their children’s health care benefits.
Medicaid/SCHIP
Medicaid is the United States health program for individuals and families with low incomes and resources. It is jointly funded by the states and federal government, and is managed by the states. Among the groups of people served by Medicaid are eligible low-income parents, pregnant women, children, seniors, and people with disabilities.
Health Care Reform
Mississippi is a state that has had a long, sad history with health outcomes. The confluence of historical racial and economic baggage, indifferent and sometimes hostile leadership, and long-standing, suffocating poverty has created a seemingly untenable environment for change.
The Nurse Family Partnership
The Nurse-Family Partnership is a nationally recognized nurse home visiting program that improves the health, well-being and self-sufficiency of first-time parents and their children.
Voices for Health Care
Voices for Health Care is a multi-state effort to engage leaders and the public in working through alternatives for health care reform.
Healthy Foods Initiative
In a nation that is becoming increasingly overweight, Mississippi continues to top the scales as the fattest state in the nation. Mississippi Health Advocacy Program proposes to remove the grocery tax on healthy foods items and leave the sales tax on unhealthy or “junk” foods in order to promote healthier food choices that would seriously address the obesity epedimic facing the state.