Capitol View: Maternal health, gender equity

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A state working group focused on maternal health returns its first list of recommendations. What comes next?

Capitol View host Roby Brock talked with a panel to discuss the issue – DHS Medicaid director Janet Mann, Department of Health secretary Renee Mallory and Arkansas Surgeon General Dr. Kay Chandler.

Roby then talks with Anna Beth Gorman from the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas and Tamika Edwards from Southwest Power Pool to discuss an annual gender equity scorecard that has opened for information. What does it hope to measure? What trends have we been seeing in recent years?

Capitol View airs on Sundays at 8:30 a.m.

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