This paper examines how telehealth can help address maternity care deserts in rural Alaska by expanding access to prenatal and postpartum care in geographically isolated [...]

Maternity health is important to the nation and so very important to our progress in the future. Upon maternal health depends on the health of the nation. By gaining the [...]

This study examined whether Thai women’s expectations of childbirth are being met and how expectations, self‑efficacy, and fear of childbirth influence satisfaction with [...]

This project consisted of staffing the Maternity Care Access Planning Commission and preparing its final public report. The Cornn1ission \Vas formed in 1991 with a missio [...]

Maternity care devoid of respect manifested in ways such as abuse discrimination negligence abandonment or ineffective communication is widespread in the United States an [...]

Abortion is an integral part of comprehensive reproductive and medical health care. Abortion highlights the structural inequalities of the United States health care and r [...]

Undertreated opioid use disorder (OUD) during pregnancy contributes to poor maternal and neonatal outcomes and worsening maternal mortality in the United States, and rate [...]

Because of a preponderance of evidence that medically low-risk women admitted to the hospital during the latent phase of labor are at risk for increased interventions a [...]

The Maternal Medical Home model of care was designed to support women's psychosocial needs during pregnancy to achieve better birth outcomes. The model was designed colla [...]