This issue brief highlights results from Asian and Pacific Islander (API) women survey respondents. It underscores many social and economic issues affecting pregnant and parenting API women, including their mental health, experiences with discrimination, postpartum...
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.
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).
2018 IPPS Rule Consumer Highlights
WORD DOCUMENT | 2018 IPPS Rule Consumer Highlights
Attacks on the Affordable Care Act, Planned Parenthood and Medicaid Are Attacks on Reproductive Justice for Women of Color
FACT SHEET | Reproductive justice will be attained when all people have the economic, social and political power and means to make decisions about their bodies, sexuality, health and families. Because of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), millions of women of color have...
Continuous Support for Women During Childbirth: 2017 Cochrane Review Update Key Takeaways
Key takeaways from a popular Cochrane systematic review that summarizes the best available studies about the effects of continuous support on laboring women and their newborns.
New Professional Recommendations to Limit Labor and Birth Interventions: What Pregnant Women Need to Know
FACT SHEET | Summary of ACOG's recommendations that maternity care providers restrict use of many common labor and birth interventions that offer limited or uncertain benefit to low-risk women.
Women’s Community Letter to Congress on the Affordable Care Act (March 2017)
LETTER | We, the undersigned organizations, share a commitment to advancing the health and economic security of women and their families. We are writing to express our opposition to repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and defunding Planned Parenthood.
Why the Affordable Care Act Matters for Women: Summary of Key Provisions
FACT SHEET | The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the greatest advance for women's health in a generation. Improving health care has long been a priority for women, reflecting their experiences as patients, mothers, and caregivers.
Quick Facts about Labor Induction
FACT SHEET | any pregnant women in the United States experience medical induction of labor. This fact sheet reviews some key points about labor induction.
Why Is the C-Section Rate So High?
FACT SHEET | When first measured in 1965, the national U.S. cesarean birth rate was 4.5%. However, the national cesarean rate has increased seven-fold.
