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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH

@peiyinhung.bsky.social
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Assoc Prof, Dept. Health Services Policy & Management, University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health; Co-Director, USC Rural Health Research Cntr; @PublicHealthUMN; Postdoc @YaleSPH

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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Rural health policy needs strong evidence. Join #NRHA and Congressional Bipartisan Rural Health Caucus for a briefing on trends in #RuralHealth Congress needs to know now. RSVP: shorturl.at/WugYf 📅 June 8 ⏰ 10–11 a.m. 📍 📍 Rayburn HOB 2044 @ruralhealth.bsky.social @uscarnoldschool.bsky.social
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RSVP: Critical Trends in Rural Health: What Congress Needs to Know Now
The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) invites you to join our Congressional Briefing, "Critical Trends in Rural Health: What Congress Needs to Know Now." The event will take place Monday, June ...
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Rural health policy needs strong evidence. Join #NRHA and the Congressional Bipartisan Rural Health Caucus for a briefing on trends in #Rural #Health Congress needs to know now. 📅 Monday, June 8 ⏰ 10–11 a.m. 📍 📍 Rayburn HOB 2044 RSVP: shorturl.at/WugYf
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Critical discussions @ruralhealth.bsky.social on engaging community partners, health systems, & researchers in developing new algorithms for #HPSA designations. Collaborative, data-informed approaches is essential to ensuring rural & underserved communities are accurately represented and supported😇
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Miscarriage patients have fewer treatment options in states with abortion bans, study shows missouriindependent.com/2026/05/19/r...
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Miscarriage patients have fewer treatment options in states with abortion bans, study shows • Missouri Independent
Pregnant patients experiencing miscarriage who live in states with abortion bans have fewer options for healthcare management, according to a new study published by the Journal of the American Medical...
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
“We are not replacing our health care providers with technology” well said by Dr. Candice Chen. We are supporting them with technology to help mitigate burnout, improve efficiency, and expand access to care, esp in #rural communities. @ruralhealth.bsky.social
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Listening to updates on national rural health initiatives from HRSA leadership #Tom_Morris #FORHP & Dr. Candice Chen while reflecting on the importance of data-driven rural health policy research to strengthen access, workforce capacity, and care delivery in rural communities. @ruralhealth #NRHA2026
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
A full room and thoughtful dialogue at the @ruralhealth.bsky.social annual meeting! Inspired by collective commitment in this room to improving care delivery and outcomes for rural Americans😇 #ruralhealth #NRHA2026
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USC Research @uscresearch.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
@peiyinhung.bsky.social found her path into public health at age 10 when she saw how health care disparities affected her grandmother in Taiwan. Today the @uscarnoldschool.bsky.social researcher is working to stop geography from dictating health outcomes 🔗 tinyurl.com/ymntfjzn
University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health associate professor Peiyin Hung smiles warmly, wearing sharp modern glasses and a tidy grey suit with a light blue shirt as she leans against an accent wall with her arms crossed. The wall is decorated with multidimensional tiles in beige, light blue and light green.
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University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health @uscarnoldschool.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Is telehealth the great equalizer for postpartum care? Arnold School researchers have been examining the role of telehealth in providing care to at-risk – and often intersecting – populations. ow.ly/Nc5f50YrLsh @peiyinhung.bsky.social @uscresearch.bsky.social
The disproportionate frequency and severity of adverse maternal outcomes experienced by rural, racial, and ethnic groups is a nationwide public health issue, and strategies like using telehealth show promise in closing gaps related to care access.

Peiyin Hung, associate professor of health services policy and management
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
What feels heavy today may become your strength tomorrow…the Academic Balancing Act🤣 #AcademicLife #ProfessorLife #ResearcherLife #PhDLife #GradStudentLife #MentorshipMatters #HigherEdLife #FacultyLife #PublishOrPerish #AcademicHumor #WorkLifeBalance #UniversityProfessor #AcademicJourney
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Now hiring: #Postdoc in Rural Maternal & Perinatal Health (#NIH U01) at USC @uscarnoldschool.bsky.social Seeking a scholar committed to #RuralHealth #MaternalHealth equity and high-impact #research dissemination. Apply: uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/201... @academyhealth.bsky.social @apha.org
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Now hiring: Postdoc in Rural Maternal & Perinatal Health (NIH U01) at USC Arnold School of Public Health. Seeking a scholar committed to rural maternal health equity and high-impact research dissemination. Apply: uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/201... #Postdoc #RuralHealth #MaternalHealth #NIH
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University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health @uscarnoldschool.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
📰 New research from the Rural Health Research Center has found that children with special health care needs are less likely to have even one positive childhood experience. ow.ly/YzUI50YmWJE @uscresearch.bsky.social @peiyinhung.bsky.social
Positive childhood experiences are important for long-term outcomes, but not everyone gets them
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University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health @uscarnoldschool.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Research led by @peiyinhung.bsky.social (top photo) and Curisa Tucker untangles residence and race when looking at postpartum hospital readmissions. Learn more with their recent @jamanetworkopen.com publication ➡️ ow.ly/3Iji50XGPtM #ResearchThatMatters @uscresearch.bsky.social
photo of Peiyin Hung and Curisa Tucker 
New Research
Black individuals in urban areas were at highest risk of postpartum readmission. Rural residence was also associated with increased readmission risk and seemed to eclipse differences in readmission rates by race/ethnicity.
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Rural moms shouldn’t have to risk their lives to give birth. In this @jamanetworkopen.com study, we found not only are rural moms at higher SMMM risk, but that traveling outside one’s local area for childbirth-whether due to clinician referral, choice, or other factors-appears to compound the risk.
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Glad to contribute to this important story led by @aylaellison.bsky.social. #Rural hospital closures continue to create a crisis. COVID relief offered temporary “pause,” financial strain persists. New funding may slow closures; yet, sustainability remains uncertain. shorturl.at/SNZAR #RuralHealth
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When the hospital leaves town
There are two kinds of Americans: those who live 12 minutes from an emergency department and those who live 72. | In large swaths of rural America, the basic expectation that an ambulance will reach a...
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University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health @uscarnoldschool.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
📰New Research Alert: 47% of rural mothers are opting to deliver in urban hospitals over local facilities in SC and end up facing worse outcomes than if they had stayed close to home. ow.ly/qNPq50XvKcm #ResearchThatMatters #ArnoldSchoolExperts @uscresearch.bsky.social @peiyinhung.bsky.social
photo of woman in labor and text: Half of rural SC families bypass local hospitals to deliver their babies in urban settings and experience worse outcomes
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NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory @pctcollaboratory.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
A study snapshot and ethics updates are now available for APA-SM, an NIH Collaboratory Trial. This #pragmatictrial is testing an auricular point acupressure intervention for self-management of chronic pain in rural communities in South Carolina and Texas. duke.is/pctnews20251...
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
✨ An honor to serve on the planning committee for this upcoming #NASEM workshop: Diagnostic Excellence in Rural Areas! 📅 October 14 | Washington, D.C. (Hybrid available!) Register here: ow.ly/tFIB50WIQqP @health.nationalacademies.org @ruralhealth.bsky.social
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
New Research Alert 🚨 Our national study of 349,682 pregnancies across 75 U.S. health systems reveals how prenatal care timing and frequency varied by COVID-19 exposure and telehealth use. dx.doi.org/10.1111/jrh....
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Severe Morning Sickness Tied to Worse Mental Health www.medpagetoday.com/obgyn/pregna...
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Severe Morning Sickness Tied to Worse Mental Health
Even mild hyperemesis gravidarum may carry mental health risks
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Senate Reconciliation Bill Could Add Over $4 Trillion to Debt-2025-06-27 www.crfb.org/blogs/senate...
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
@USC Health Services Policy and Management is here at the #AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting #ARM2025 in Minneapolis! Come visit us! Stop by our booth in the exhibit hall to meet our amazing colleague, grab some materials, and learn about our faculty’s work in #healthservicesresearch!
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
From my 1st NRHA in 2011, to presenting annually since, receiving the 2017 outstanding student award & the 2025 researcher of the year award. Thanks @ruralhealth.bsky.social for nurturing my rural health journey!
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
📢 We need your insights! Are you involved in #rural #health #policy or #Medicaid perinatal payment models? #USCRHRC is conducting a national study on state variations in Medicaid perinatal bundled payments. 📝 Take the survey here: tinyurl.com/9vyjfnxf @ruralhealth.bsky.social @nosorh.bsky.social
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
📢 New Publication Alert! We developed a #Racial #Discrimination #Index using #socialmedia data + #AI - it's strongly linked to Black premature deaths. More detail here: @curisatucker.bsky.social #HealthDisparity @uscarnoldschool.bsky.social l @uscresearch.bsky.social
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
🎉 Here’s a wrap on 1st Rural Auricular Point Acupressure (#APA) Educator training workshop @uscarnoldschool.bsky.social #USCRHRC! Excited to launch our #NIH-funded #ClinicalTrial in Sept 2025, partnering with #SCORH #SCCHWA #SCPHCA @cupress.bsky.social More here: shorturl.at/9jO9f #ruralhealthcare
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National Rural Health Association @ruralhealth.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
NRHA is now accepting submissions for our 2025 compendium of rural oral health initiatives and best practices through March 31. Learn more and act soon: fs16.formsite.com/MEAGHAN/pvmi... #ruralhealth
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National Rural Health Association @ruralhealth.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Join NRHA and hundreds of rural health leaders for NRHA’s Annual Rural Health Conference and associated events May 20-23 in Atlanta. Check out the updated agenda with over 80 innovative, practical, and cost-saving sessions and much more: www.ruralhealth.us/events/sched... #ruralhealth
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
🚨Call 4 Papers!🚨 Excited to co-edit this #Hybrid #Pregnancy #Care collection #BMCPregnancyChildbirth!✨https://go.sn.pub/hpc We welcome submissions on novel perinatal care models. #MaternalHealth #telehealth @doctorswithoutborders.org @ruralhealth.bsky.social #Policy @acog-org.bsky.social
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National Rural Health Association @ruralhealth.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Proposed federal funding cuts could have a drastic impact in rural areas, with NRHA Chief Policy Officer Carrie Cochran-McClain saying that already strapped rural clinics will feel these proposed cuts deeply. Read more: www.marketplace.org/2025/03/10/f... #ruralhealth
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Federal funding cuts could hurt already fragile rural health care - Marketplace
Rural hospitals and clinics face potential closures, leaving patients with longer travel times, fewer options and more uncertainty.
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Virtual hospitals, like Saudi Arabia's Seha Virtual Hospital, are revolutionizing healthcare by providing remote team-based care to patients in #underserved areas. Could this be the future of #rural healthcare in the US? #Telemedicine #RuralHealth www.ft.com/content/1041...
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‘Virtual hospitals’ deliver home treatment to remote patients
Digital systems are helping to cut the need for physical attendance at medical centres
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@janprobst.bsky.social @janprobst.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Since the hospital supply issue is now hitting the lay press, Sam the rural health advoCATe makes one additional point: we can decrease hospital bed use by increasing the supply of and access to primary care physicians. #PowerOfRuralCats jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Health Care Staffing Shortages and Potential National Hospital Bed Shortage
This cross-sectional study assesses several possible US hospital bed occupancy scenarios arising from an aging US population over the next decade, based on varying hospitalization rates and staffed ho...
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@janprobst.bsky.social @janprobst.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Shared with a sigh by Sam the rural health advoCATe. #PowerOfRuralCats
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
#OBClosure laist.com/brief/news/e...
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Hospital to close maternity ward
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Smaller Town Hospitals Having Trouble Maintaining Labor And Delivery Services. Another #rural #OBClosure sheridanmedia.com/news/185526/...
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Smaller Town Hospitals Having Trouble Maintaining Labor And Delivery Services
What’s being labeled as a maternity desert, just got a little bit bigger in southwest Wyoming. As of December 30th 2024, the hospital in Evanston discontinued its labor and delivery services, makin...
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Hospital will pay fine for halting L&D services “without CON approval”!!! The fine will fund grants for #MaternalHealth. A community forum will guide fund use. “Hospitals must support their communities,” said OHS Commissioner Gifford. #OBClosure www.hartfordbusiness.com/article/ct-o...
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CT OHS fines Johnson Memorial Hospital $153.5K for terminating labor, delivery services
Johnson Memorial Hospital in Stafford Springs will pay a $153,500 fine to the state for terminating labor and delivery services without a Certificate of Need (CON) approval, a state agency announced T...
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Mercy Health West closed labor and delivery unit on 12/19/2024, expectant mothers advised to seek alternatives local12.com/health/healt...
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Mercy Health West to close labor and delivery unit, patients advised to seek alternatives
Effective tomorrow at noon, Mercy Health will be closing their labor and delivery unit.
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Prolonged labor ⬆️ complication risks, endanger mom and baby. These risks are exacerbated by systemic challenges in accessing quality #maternity care, particularly as obstetric unit closures further strain hospital capacity & care availability. @people @ruralhealth people.com/baby-dies-af...
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Newborn Allegedly Dies After Mother's Induction Is Delayed for 60 Hours Due to 'Hospital Capacity,' According to Lawsuit
Chelsea Wooton alleges that she had to wait 60 hours to be induced while the hospital prioritized other emergencies, which ultimately led to the death of her newborn.
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@janprobst.bsky.social @janprobst.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Interesting work, notes Sam the rural health advoCATe. But one aspect is missing: rurality. Rural motor vehicle crash mortality, for example, is roughly twice that of urban kids, across groups. (Probst, Zhand et al Health Affairs 2019). #PowerOfRuralCats jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Pediatric Firearm and Motor Vehicle Deaths
This cross-sectional study examines trends in firearm and motor vehicle pediatric death among US youths by age, sex, race, and ethnicity.
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
“when a state combines an unusually high birth rate, fearful immigrants, very limited access to care, safe havens no one knows about, and an abysmal record of supporting reproductive care and women's health…” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...
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‘Baby in a dumpster.’ A spate of abandoned newborns unsettles Texas.
Critics say these cases are no coincidence in a state with one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans and near-bottom rankings on women’s health care.
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Hospital consolidation resulted in another labor and delivery unit closure in FL. www.wpbf.com/article/flor...
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Martin County loses its only hospital labor and delivery unit
Two Cleveland Clinic locations on the Treasure Coast plan to consolidate some of their women’s health services in Martin and St. Lucie counties.
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Another blow to rural #maternitycare: Winner Regional Health in SD will end L&D services starting Feb. 1, 2025. Expectant moms now face longer travel and many uncertainties for childbirth, as nearby towns also lack L&D services. www.newschannelnebraska.com/story/520901... #MaternalHealthCrisis
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Winner hospital ends labor and delivery services
This change means expectant mothers in Winner and surrounding areas will have to travel farther for labor and delivery, as many nearby towns have also discontinued these services.
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Merry Christmas!
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Budgeted $3K for #CHW #CommunityEngagement plus $30-$100 hourly participant stipends, but a community partner requested ~$70K just for admin/overhead. As voluntary Co-I, I struggle to balance fairness to comm partners with budget realities. How do others navigate this? Seeking advice.
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Peiyin Hung, PhD, MSPH @peiyinhung.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Despite the rise in hybrid #prenatal care during #COVID, overall rates remain low, even at the peak; and the #rural-#urban divide persists. shorturl.at/0K6U8
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