Volume 123, Issue 6: Maternal and Child Health
EDITORIAL
- Shaping Tomorrow by Advancing Maternal and Child Health
- Gun Violence in Children: A Public Health Crisis and an Upstream Approach to Our Response
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
- The Role of Neighborhood in Individual and Disparity- Level Factors and Birth Weight in Dane County, Wisconsin
- Addressing Maternal and Child Health Disparities Through Perinatal Home Visiting
- Medicaid Enrollment Gaps Before, During, and After Pregnancy: Evidence from Administrative Data
- Intimate Partner Violence Screening in an Obstetrics Clinic: A Retrospective Study
- Sterilization Rates of Pregnancy-Capable People at a Single Institution in Wisconsin Before and After Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization
- Association of an Enhanced Recovery After Cesarean Surgery Protocol With Postpartum Opioid Utilization: Analysis of a Quality Improvement Project
- Pregnant Women Perceptions of Cannabinoid Use in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Enablers and Challenges of Breastfeeding During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Perceived Loneliness as a Potential Risk Factor for Worse Outcomes Among People Who are Pregnant or Postpartum
- Fish Consumption Advisory Awareness and Behavior Among Asian Women of Childbearing Age – Milwaukee, Wisconsin, January 1, 2022–January 31, 2023
- The Perceptions of Infertility Patients Regarding the COVID-19 Vaccine: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Patient Readiness
- Outcomes Among Well-appearing Infants Initially Deferred Antibiotics for Fever
- Impact of a School-Based Mental Health Program on Academic Outcomes
- Optimizing Pediatric Patients’ Attainment of Outpatient Mental Health Services Following Emergency Department Care
- Neurodevelopmental Screening Tests Outcomes of Children in Wisconsin With a Prenatal History of Travel to Zika Virus Endemic Regions During 2015-2018: A Retrospective Case-Control Study
- Association Between Lead Poisoning and Academic Performance of Third-Grade Children in Milwaukee
REVIEWS
- Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences and Perinatal Anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Substance Use
- Systematic Review of Studies Measuring Social Media Use and Depression, Anxiety, and Psychological Distress in Adolescents: 2018-2020
BRIEF REPORTS
- Trends in Teenage Birth Rates in Wisconsin, 2011-2022: Continued Declines and Persistent Disparities
- Assessing Accuracy of Blood Loss Measurements During Cesarean Birth in a Diverse Patient Population: A Quality Improvement Study
- Vaping During Pregnancy in Northern Wisconsin
- Valacyclovir Versus Acyclovir for Herpes Simplex Virus Suppression Following Neonatal Infection
- What Aspects of Youth Programming Have Lasting Effects? Perspectives from Wisconsin PATCH Alumni
- Utility and Acceptability of Rapid Antigen Testing for Influenza and SARS-CoV-2 in K-12 School Health Offices During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
CASE REPORTS
- Gravid Hysterectomy in the Setting of Placenta Increta at 12 Weeks Gestation
- Human Parechovirus Infection in an Infant Presenting with Hyperferritinemia
- Perinatal Femur Fracture Following Difficult Cesarean Delivery: A Case Report
- Extremely Early Onset Type 1 Diabetes in the Emergency Setting: A Unique Presentation of a Common Childhood Onset Disease
COMMENTARIES AND NARRATIVES
- Permanent Contraception and the Federal Consent Process: Barriers to Access
- Abortion Access and Birth-related Outcomes and Inequities: A Call to Dismantle Abortion Restrictions in Wisconsin to Improve Health and Well-being
- Addressing Wisconsin’s Rural Maternal Morbidity and Mortality—How General Surgery Can Help
- An Internists’ Action Plan to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality Under Abortion Restrictions
- Prophylactic or Poison: The Folic Acid Debate
- Insights Into Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders: Addressing Treatment Gaps, Risk Factors, and Health Outcomes
- The Emptiness of Fetal Death – A Resident Physician’s Struggle to Cope With Loss and Disappointment in Modern Medicine
- Development of a Doctor: A Medical Student’s Year Training in a Fetal Anomalies Clinic
- The ‘Passport’ to Inclusive Research Participant Engagement: Integrating Families in a Research Journey
- Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency in Wisconsin Newborns: Missed Opportunity for Screening
Call for Papers
The WMJ invites submissions relevant to the teaching, learning and assessment of learners at all levels across, and adjacent to, medical education for a special issue to be published in December 2025.
Call for Artwork
The WMJ invites submissions of artwork that illustrates the art and science of medicine to feature on its covers.
About WMJ
WMJ—the Wisconsin Medical Journal—is a peer-reviewed, indexed, scientific journal published six times a year and online in advance each month through a collaboration between the Medical College of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
All articles published in WMJ, including commentaries, letters to the editor, and editorials represent the views of the authors, for which neither WMJ nor the publisher takes responsibility, unless clearly stated.
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