FACT SHEET | The Affordable Care Act (ACA) aims to improve conditions for pregnant women and new parents by providing the services they need to have healthy pregnancies and provide their children with a good start in life.
Why the Affordable Care Act Matters for Women: Improving Health Coverage for Lower-Income Women
FACT SHEET | The high cost of health care places a particular burden on lower-income women who need health services but often struggle to pay premiums and out-of-pocket costs. The problem has been exacerbated because many insurers charge women higher rates simply...
Workers’ Access to Paid Sick Days in the States
An analysis of workers' access to paid sick days by state conducted by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) in collaboration with the National Partnership.
How Accountable Care Impacts the Way Consumers Receive Care
REPORT | In Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), physicians, hospitals and other health care providers work together to improve the quality and coordination of health care services for a population of patients.
An Unlevel Playing Field: America’s Gender-Based Wage Gap, Binds of Discrimination, And A Path Forward
ISSUE BRIEF | A report that finds that America’s gender-based wage gap is pervasive and has a disproportionate impact on the country’s mothers, especially single mothers and mothers of color.
The Priority of Developing and Implementing CAHPS Maternity Care Facility, Clinician, and Health Plan Surveys
FACT SHEET | This document identifies limitations in applying the original generic surveys to maternity care and the population of childbearing women and newborns.
El argumento para un programa nacional de seguro para ausencia familiar y médica (El FAMILY Act)
HOJA INFORMATIVA | Una hoja informativa acerca de la necesidad para un programa nacional de seguro para ausencia familiar y médica.
Children Benefit When Parents Have Paid Leave
FACT SHEET | A fact sheet summarizing the data and reasons policies like paid leave are important for children and their parents.
Understanding Worker Leave Policies: An Overview
A summary of three types of public leave policies that address the health and caregiving needs of today's working families - unpaid FMLA leave, paid family and medical leave, and paid sick and safe days.
Pathway to a Healthy Birth: Poster for Clinicians (full bleed)
INFOGRAPHIC | A roadmap to how clinicians can support beneficial hormonal action in childbirth.
Early Skin-to-Skin Contact Between Mothers and Newborns
FACT SHEET | This fact sheet summarizes the beneficial hormone actions of mother-newborn skin-to-skin contact (SSC), the benefits of SSC through the lens of hormonal physiology, and practices that support beneficial hormonal physiology when separation of mother and...
Fact Sheet: Physiologic Birth versus Cesarean Section
FACT SHEET | The following summarizes the beneficial hormone actions of childbearing that is physiologic (conforming to healthy biologic processes), the likely clinical benefits of physiologic birth through the lens of hormonal physiology, and practices that may...
Non-Pharmacologic Pain Management versus Epidural Analgesia
FACT SHEET | This fact sheet summarizes the beneficial hormone actions of physiologic childbearing (conforming to healthy biologic processes), the hormonal benefits of non-pharmacologic pain management, and practices that support beneficial hormonal physiology when...
Low-Stress Birthing Environments
FACT SHEET | . This fact sheet summarizes the beneficial hormone actions of eustress, the benefits of lowering stress in the birthing environment through the lens of hormonal physiology, and practices that support beneficial hormonal physiology in conditions of...
Physiologic (Spontaneous) Onset of Labor versus Scheduled Birth
FACT SHEET | This fact sheet highlights key benefits of the spontaneous, physiologic onset of labor at term, including fully experiencing beneficial hormonal actions of late pregnancy and early labor, and identifies practices that support hormonal physiology when...
Core Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing Principles
FACT SHEET | The scientific literature on the hormonal physiology of childbearing reveals core themes and principles. These themes and principles reflect profound interconnections at many levels and over time. This fact sheet is based on the Hormonal Physiology of...
The Hormonal Cascade of Childbearing
FACT SHEET | Hormonal physiology of childbearing involves complex interconnected beneficial processes. This is a fact sheet based on the Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing report.
Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: Evidence and Implications for Women, Babies, and Maternity Care Full Set of Fact Sheets
FACT SHEETS | These fact sheets cover the following topics: The Hormonal Cascade of Childbearing, Core Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing Principles, Physiologic (Spontaneous) Onset of Labor versus Scheduled Birth, Low-Stress Birthing Environments, Non-Pharmacologic...
Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: Evidence and Implications for Women, Babies, and Maternity Care Full Recommendations
This is a set of detailed recommendations based on the Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: Evidence and Implications for Women, Babies, and Maternity Care report.
Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: Evidence and Implications for Women, Babies, and Maternity Care
ABSTRACT & RECOMMENDATIONS | This is the abstract and topline recommendations to Promote, Support, and Protect Physiologic Childbearing for the Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: Evidence and Implications for Women, Babies, and Maternity Care report.
