Enhancing Futures: Exploring the Impact of the MIHP Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies Pilot Program on Michigan Families

Author(s):
Robin Jacob, Zaiyi Jiang
Key Findings:

Analyzing survey responses for over 1,700 individuals who participated in the HMHB pilot, we observed the following:

  • Overall, the pilot appears to have had a positive impact on families’ self-reported social determinants of health, including food security, financial security, and housing stability. Families receiving enhanced MIHP services were less likely to cut meals due to cost, significantly less likely to report going without essential utilities, and significantly less likely to meet the McKinney-Vento definition of homelessness. Participants who were unemployed and looking for work were also significantly more likely to contact someone about a job when served by treatment group agencies.
  • The pilot appears to have demonstrated notable benefits for Black families. In particular, the program bridged the gap between Black and White families who reported that MIHP met their needs and significantly reduced the likelihood of experiencing utility disruptions for Black families served by treatment group agencies.
  • The pilot program seems to have been particularly beneficial for families experiencing their first pregnancy. These families were significantly less likely to report going without essential utilities or cutting meals due to financial constraints.
  • Independent freestanding agencies seem to have benefited more from the pilot than local health departments.  Families served by independent agencies in the treatment group were much less likely to report utility disruptions and food insecurity than their counterparts served by independent agencies in the control group.

Additional Supplemental Reports:

  1. Learn more about the findings of an analysis of Z codes associated with Care Coordination claims for the Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies pilot services.
  2. MIHP Satisfaction Brief: ‘Having someone there when no one else was around’: Positive Participant Experiences with the Maternal Infant Health Program.

Policy Brief Poster

Families receiving enhanced MIHP services were less likely to cut meals due to cost, significantly less likely to report going without essential utilities, and significantly less likely to meet the McKinney-Vento definition of homelessness.” Page 2