Care Deserts
Nowhere to Go: Maternity Care Deserts Across the US
Maternity care deserts are counties where there is no access to birthing hospitals, birth centers offering obstetric care, or obstetric providers. Nowhere to Go ...
Which communities don't have enough child care nearby to serve the families that need it? Use this mapping tool to see if you live in a child care desert.
Defining medical deserts—an international consensus-building ...
The term 'medical deserts' started being used in the last decade, predominantly in France, to denote areas in which individuals have ...
Maternity Care Desert | PeriStats - March of Dimes
Maternity care deserts are counties in which access to maternity health care services is limited or absent. Access to quality maternity care is a critical ...
These services span many dimensions of healthcare, including medications, primary care providers, hospitals, emergency services, and community health centers.
Maternity care deserts in the United States - Wikipedia
The March of Dimes defines a maternity care desert as a county that has no hospitals or birth centers offering obstetric care and no obstetric providers. ... As ...
Maternity care deserts are growing in the U.S., March of ... - NPR
A report from the nonprofit March of Dimes finds that 36% of counties in the U.S. are "maternity care deserts," meaning they have no ...
Child Care Deserts - Center for American Progress
Areas where there are too few licensed slots for the number of children who need care are known as child care deserts, and more than half of America's children— ...
Maternity Care Deserts in the US | Health Policy - JAMA Network
Childbearing services are becoming scarcer. Nationwide, more than 400 maternity services closed between 2006 and 2020.
Maternity care deserts are growing - Axios
Maternity care deserts are growing · The main reasons were low birth volume, insufficient reimbursement rates from insurers, and staff shortages ...
Confronting the Issue of Maternity Care Deserts
Access to maternity care is dwindling and birthing people are dying. We must invest resources in a multi-pronged strategy that includes many ...
Pregnant women are less and less able to access maternity care
Rising rates of maternity care deserts and a "mass exodus" of OB-GYNs in states with strict abortion bans mean finding prenatal care is getting ...
March of Dimes Maternity Care Deserts Dashboard | Deloitte US
Deloitte Consulting and the Deloitte Health Equity Institute supported March of Dimes with development of a maternity care deserts interactive map, ...
Miles from treatment and pregnant: How women in maternity care ...
The March of Dimes' 2022 report found 2 in 3 maternity care deserts in the country are rural counties, and only 7% of obstetric providers work ...
Maternity care 'deserts' on the rise across the U.S., report finds
A maternity care desert is any county without a hospital or birth center offering obstetric care and without any obstetric providers.
Mapping America's Child Care Deserts - Center for American Progress
This report analyzes the locations of licensed child care providers in 22 states—covering two-thirds of the U.S. population—and finds that ...
Why the problem of maternity care deserts is getting worse - PBS
The number of deaths due to pregnancy-related causes is on the rise, according to a new report from the March of Dimes, ...
36% of US counties are 'maternity care deserts,' new report finds
About 36% of all US counties are “maternity care deserts,” and the number of counties where there is limited or no access to maternity care ...
Maternity Care Deserts in the US - PubMed
Plain language summary. This JAMA Forum discusses community models of perinatal care, workforce challenges, and policies to reduce maternity ...
Is There a Solution for Maternity Care Deserts? - Babyscripts
A county qualifies as a maternity care desert if it has no hospitals providing obstetric care, no birth centers, no OB/GYN and no certified nurse midwives.