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The health effects of Paid Family and Medical Leave
Health is influenced by a variety of factors, such as where people live, access to healthy foods, and affordability of health care. Policies that address a worker's ability to care for family members, like Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML), also shape health outcomes.
The report explores the different impacts PFML has on health outcomes, which include:
- Reducing negative effects that particular aspects of work have on pregnant women, many of which are associated with delivery complications.
- Benefits to children's and mothers' health through increased rates and duration of breastfeeding when mothers are able to take leave.
- More time for parents to bond with newborns, recover from childbirth, and take young children to the doctor.
- Improvement of mothers' mental health when they have access to job-protected, paid leave.
- More time for workers to care for elder relatives.
Read the full report here.
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