Across the country, politicians are playing doctor – pushing for laws that intrude into exam rooms and conflict with professional and ethical standards of medical care. The
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Women Face Pervasive Disparities in Access to Health Insurance
FACT SHEET | Data released by the U.S. Census Bureau show that, despite significant health insurance gains since the Affordable Care Act was implemented, pervasive coverage disparities remain for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (including but not limited to Guam,...
Latinas Experience Pervasive Disparities in Access to Health Insurance
FACT SHEET | Data released by the U.S. Census Bureau show that, despite significant health insurance gains since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was implemented, pervasive coverage disparities remain for Latinas. In fact, Latinas have the lowest coverage rates of any...
Black Women Experience Pervasive Disparities in Access to Health Insurance
FACT SHEET | Data released by the U.S. Census Bureau show that, despite significant health insurance gains since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was implemented, pervasive coverage disparities remain for Black women.
American Indian and Alaska Native Women Face Pervasive Disparities in Access to Health Insurance
FACT SHEET | Data released by the U.S. Census Bureau show that, despite significant health insurance gains since the Affordable Care Act was implemented, pervasive coverage disparities remain for American Indian and Alaska Native women.
Overdue: Insurance Coverage of Doula Care Infographic
INFOGRAPHIC | Benefits of continuous labor support by a doula
Blueprint for Advancing High-Value Maternity Care Through Physiologic Childbearing – Chapter 6
REPORT | Chapter 6: Conduct Priority Research to Advance the Science of Physiologic Childbearing and Its Impact on Maternal and Child Health Outcomes
Blueprint for Advancing High-Value Maternity Care Through Physiologic Childbearing – Chapter 5
REPORT | Chapter 5: Foster an Optimal Maternity Care Workforce Composition and Distribution
Blueprint for Advancing High-Value Maternity Care Through Physiologic Childbearing – Chapter 4
REPORT | Chapter 4: Transition to Interprofessional Education That Supports Team-Based Care for Maternity Care Professionals
Blueprint for Advancing High-Value Maternity Care Through Physiologic Childbearing – Chapter 3
REPORT | Chapter 3: Meaningfully Engage All Childbearing Women and Families
Blueprint for Advancing High-Value Maternity Care Through Physiologic Childbearing – Chapter 2
REPORT | Chapter 2: Advance Performance Measurement for High-Value Maternity Care
Blueprint for Advancing High-Value Maternity Care Through Physiologic Childbearing – Chapter 1
REPORT | Chapter 1: Improve Maternity Care Through Innovative Delivery and Payment Systems and Quality Improvement Initiatives
Blueprint for Advancing High-Value Maternity Care Through Physiologic Childbearing
REPORT | This Blueprint identifies six widely accepted improvement strategies to transform maternity care and a series of specific recommendations within each strategy.
Bad Medicine: How a Political Agenda Is Undermining Abortion Care and Access in Wisconsin
ISSUE BRIEF | Bad Medicine: How a Political Agenda is Undermining Abortion Care and Access, a 2018 report by the National Partnership for Women & Families, finds that a large majority of states have one or more of these “bad medicine” laws. Wisconsin is a key...
Bad Medicine: How a Political Agenda Is Undermining Abortion Care and Access in Louisiana
ISSUE BRIEF | Bad Medicine: How a Political Agenda is Undermining Abortion Care and Access, a 2018 report by the National Partnership for Women & Families, finds that a large majority of states have one or more of these “bad medicine” laws. Louisiana is a key...
Medicaid: Ensuring Basic Health Care for Millions of Women and Children
FACT SHEET | Medicaid plays an essential role in connecting millions of women and children to the care they need.
Maternity Snapshot: Black Maternal Health
FACT SHEET | Black women in the United States experience unacceptably poor maternal health outcomes, including disproportionately high rates of maternal death related to pregnancy or childbirth.
HINTS 2017: Women and Health Information Seeking
FACT SHEET | Women rely more heavily than men on digital tools to find and understand health information. This is a key takeaway from the 2017 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS).
HINTS 2017: Online Medical Records Are a Critical Tool for Women
FACT SHEET | Key findings from yhe 2017 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS).
Bad Medicine: How a Political Agenda Is Undermining Abortion Care and Access — Third Edition
REPORT| This report explains how bad medicine laws undermine the high-quality, patient-centered care that health care providers and advocates strive to achieve.

