Investing in Maternal and Child Health: An Employer's Toolkit

Investing in Maternal and Child Health: An Employer's Toolkit presents strategies and tools to improve the health of children; adolescents; and women before, during, and after pregnancy. Toolkit highlights include:

• The business case for investing in maternal and child health.
• The Maternal and Child Health Plan Benefit Model, which outlines 34 evidence-informed health, pharmacy, vision, and dental benefits recommended by the Business Group.
• Actuarially-driven cost-impact assessments for each recommended benefit.
• Tools for developing a maternal and child health strategy, and evaluating the relationships between health outcomes and business performance.
• A benchmarking crosswalk that links Maternal and Child Health Plan Benefit Model recommendations to current HEDIS® measures.
• Guidance for employers on effective health communication, beneficiary education, and employee engagement.
• Education materials for beneficiaries about important maternal and child health topics.
• Employer case-studies.

Updates at a Glance: What's New in 2010: See how the Business Group has updated the Toolkit since its original release.

Investing in Maternal and Child Health: An Employer's Toolkit (PDF) (download entire toolkit: 304 pages)

NEW! Additional Toolkit materials:

• Executive Summary
• The Crisis in Children's Health

NEW! Want to learn more about the Toolkit about how to use it? Listen to these informational podcasts:

• The Business Case for Maternal and Child Health Benefits
  
• Implementation Plan for Investing in Maternal and Child Health: An Employer’s Toolkit
  
• Background Information on Investing in Maternal and Child Health: An Employer’s Toolkit
• Investing in Maternal and Child Health: The Plan Benefit Model

NEW! Use the Maternal and Child Health Calculator for Employers to design your maternal and child health benefits. This tool estimates an employer's direct and indirect cost impact of adopting a set of model prevention benefits which were published by the National Business Group in Health in Investing in Maternal and Child Health: An Employer's Toolkit.

Click here to download the Maternal and Child Health Calculator, developed by the National Business Group on Health and the University of Michigan, to your desktop. (This is an executable file that you must install on your computer.) Also see the corresponding issue brief for more information.

NEW! Click here to view an Adobe Presenter presentation that will walk you through how to use the Maternal and Child Health Calculator for Employers.

For more information, contact the Center for Prevention and Health Services at healthservices@businessgrouphealth.org.

Preterm Birth Resources:

• Issue Brief: Preventing Premature Birth: Having Healthier Babies and Lowering Employer Costs
  
• Health Tip: Preterm Birth and Elective Inductions Prior to 37 Weeks
  
• Issue Brief: Preventing Prematurity and Adverse Birth Outcomes: What Employers Should Know
  
• Health Tip: Cesarean Sections Before 39 Weeks Increase Risks for Newborns
  
• Benefit Manager Guide: Prematurity: The Costs and Consequences
  
• Webinar: Late Preterm Births: Employer Strategies to Decrease Long-term Health Consequences and Associated Costs