Midwifery & Maternal
Health Studies
Midwifery & Maternal
Health Studies
Research Articles
- Birthing, Blackness, and the Body: Black Midwives and Experiential Continuities of Institutional Racism
- Improving Our Maternity Care Now Through Community Birth Settings
- Mapping Integration of Midwives Across the United States: Impact on access, Equity, and Outcomes
- The Giving Voice to Mothers study: inequity and mistreatment during pregnancy and childbirth in the United States
- The Technocratic Model of Birth
Reports & Studies
- Community Innovations to Improve Black Maternal Health
- AHSG Reversing the US Maternal Mortality Crisis Report 2021
- CMS Innovation Strong Start for Mothers and Newborns Initiative
- Structural Racism And Black Women’s Employment In The US Health Care Sector
- Improving Maternity Community Birth Settings
- Birth Outcome Planned Home and Licensed Birth Center Births
- Professional Supremacism: Holding on to the Past…Holding Back Our Future
- Renfrew - Midwifery and Quality Care - Lancet
- Strong Start for Mothers and Newborns - Evauation of Full Performance Period.
- Vision for High Quality Maternity Care
- White House Maternal Health Blueprint
- Pregnancy-Related Deaths in the US, 2018-2022
Mapping integration of midwives across the United States: Impact on access, equity, and outcomes
Published: February 21, 2018
“Poor coordination of care across providers and birth settings has been associated with adverse maternal-newborn outcomes. Research suggests that integration of midwives into regional health systems is a key determinant of optimal maternal-newborn outcomes…”
Improving Our Maternity Care Now Through Community Birth Settings
Published: April 1, 2018
“Enabling more birthing people to receive care in community birth settings and increasing access to community birth care provided by and for People of Color should be a top priority for decisionmakers at the local, state, and federal levels.”
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