Measuring U.S. Maternal Mortality

This case study attempts to help students understand the various terminologies (“frameworks”, “pathways”, “models”, etc.) used by organizations in planning, implementing, and evaluating programs and interventions, and is based the work done by the Center for Global Health at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto on the Knowledge Management Initiative of the Muskoka Initiative Consortium. It provides a broad overview of maternal health across the globe, along with specific information about maternal health care…

This data interactive, developed by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), shows the increase in states with laws restricting abortion coverage when using Medicaid and private insurance from 2010 to the present. The ACA renewed legislative efforts to limit abortion coverage, this time in private insurance plans. The ACA maintains the limits of the Hyde Amendment, which banned federal funding for abortion except for pregnancies that endanger the life of the woman or are a result…

This data portal from Surgo Ventures provides a comprehensive tool using 2021 date to examine the range of factors that influence adverse pregnancy outcomes in the United States, where the maternal mortality rate remains the highest of any industrialized country in the world. The U.S. Maternal Vulnerability Index (MVI) is the first county-level, national-scale tool to rank vulnerability to poor maternal health outcomes and identify the regions and factors impacting susceptibility to these outcomes for…