Reducing Maternal Mortality and Morbidity

STRATEGIES AND ACTIONS: IMPROVING MATERNAL HEALTH ...

Engage the family in creating a supportive environment. Discuss and make available options for traditional practices that may vary by culture and personal ...

Reducing Maternal Mortality and Morbidity - Improving Birth Outcomes

Interventions that may prevent mortality or serious morbidity for mother or fetus include labor augmentation, cesarean section, or transfer to a more ...

Policies Reducing Maternal Morbidity Mortality Enhancing Equity

This report is intended to inform policy aimed at lowering rates of maternal morbidity and mortality and eliminating inequities.

Eliminating Preventable Maternal Mortality and Morbidity - ACOG

Learn about ACOG's initiatives to eliminate preventable maternal mortality, as well as ACOG's advocacy work supporting federal and state legislation.

Maternal mortality - World Health Organization (WHO)

About 287 000 women died during and following pregnancy and childbirth in 2020. Almost 95% of all maternal deaths occurred in low and lower middle-income ...

Reduce maternal deaths — MICH‑04 - Healthy People 2030

Improving the quality of medical care for women before, during, and after pregnancy can help reduce maternal deaths.

Some Solutions to Reduce Maternal Mortality

An adequate antenatal and postpartum care can significantly reduce maternal mortality and morbidity. To avoid maternal deaths, it is also very important to ...

How We Improve Maternal Health - HRSA

... Maternal Health Crisis (PDF - 912 KB). Learn how HRSA commits to reducing maternal morbidity and mortality through five goals. Quick facts.

Four in 5 pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S. are preventable - CDC

Examples of prevention recommendations from MMRCs include wider access to insurance coverage to improve prenatal care initiation and follow-up ...

SDG Target 3.1 Maternal mortality - World Health Organization (WHO)

SDG Target 3.1 Reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100 000 live births ... How can women's lives be saved? Most maternal deaths are ...

FACT SHEET: Vice President Kamala Harris Announces Call to ...

FACT SHEET: Vice President Kamala Harris Announces Call to Action to Reduce Maternal Mortality and Morbidity · Build Back Better · Encourage ...

U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis Comparison | Commonwealth Fund

In Chile, Norway, and the U.S., for which 2022 data are now available, the maternal death rate has begun to decrease once again. In 2022, ...

Maternal Mortality and Morbidity | Wisconsin Department of Health ...

Though maternal health in the United States has improved over the past century, recent increases in maternal deaths and significant racial disparities in ...

Maternal Mortality and Morbidity: Additional Efforts Needed to ...

Research suggests there is a greater risk of maternal mortality and SMM among rural residents and that underserved areas may lack needed health services.

Reducing US Maternal Mortality as a Human Right

APHA recommends that pregnancy-related mortality and morbidity surveillance be enhanced and strengthened to identify all pregnancy-related deaths in the United ...

Initiatives to Reduce Maternal Mortality and Severe ... - ACP Journals

Patient awareness and health care workforce training programs can heighten awareness about disparities in maternal outcomes. Medical homes can ...

Maternal mortality rates and statistics - UNICEF DATA

This translates into an average annual rate of reduction of 2.1 per cent. While substantive, this is about one third of the 6.4 per cent annual rate needed to ...

Strategies to reduce global maternal mortality - Nyfløt - 2018

Skilled care before, during and after childbirth can reduce maternal morbidity and mortality. In high-income countries, women have several ...

How States are Using Policy to Reduce Maternal Mortality and ...

How States are Using Policy to Reduce Maternal Mortality and Morbidity · Texas passed legislation to extend coverage to pregnant women up to six ...

Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review - Mass.gov

Data from Maternal Mortality Review Committees indicate that 84% of US pregnancy-related deaths are preventable. Furthermore, racial inequities persist as the ...