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- Practitioners in maternal and child health (MCH) make it a priority to solve complex public health problems facing women, children, adolescents, and their families across the life course. The field of MCH has made significant advances in the past century, including the expansion of family planning methods and services, the eradication of once-common deadly diseases such as polio, and innovations…May 2019Maternal/Child Health
- On Jan. 10, 2019, Taté Walker (they/them) presented on the violence and marginalization faced by Indigenous womxn*, primarily due to the ongoing, chronic impacts of settler colonialism. Walker, who is Lakota and a citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, is an Indigenous rights activist and award-winning multimedia storyteller. Walker observed that the U.S. murder rate for…January 2019Community Violence, Structural Violence
- Objective: Guided by critical theory, this study illustrates the value of interpretative mapping to deconstruct bus travel to publicly funded prenatal care in a city marked by health and social inequities.Design: Using geographical information systems (GIS) approach, this mixed methods study delves deeper into the known barrier of transportation to prenatal care among urban mothers most at risk…July 2018Maternal/Child Health, Transportation
- The Best Babies Zone (BBZ) Initiative, launched in 2012 with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, is a place-based, multi-site, multi-sector approach to reducing disparities in infant mortality and birth outcomes. Through community mobilization and local partnerships, the Initiative aims to increase health equity by supporting solutions driven by resident needs in neighborhoods most impacted…February 2018Maternal/Child Health
- There is a common assumption that programs aiming to increase coverage of health services and reduce morbidity and mortality among the poor are, by virtue, equitable. However, without careful attention to equity in the design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and adjustment of the strategy, these programs may result in narrow impacts that only improve the situation of those who are…September 2016Maternal/Child Health, Reproductive/Sexual Health, Policy and Practice
- Significant progress has been made in maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) in recent decades. Between 1990 and 2015, the global mortality rate for children under age five years dropped by 53 percent, from 90.6 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 42.5 in 2015 (Liu and others 2016). Maternal mortality is also on the decline globally.1 Despite progress, maternal, neonatal, and under-five…April 2016Maternal/Child Health
- The Hewlett Foundation’s Global Development and Population Program's International Women’s Reproductive Health Strategy aims to achieve three outcomes: preventing unwanted pregnancies, eliminating deaths from unsafe abortions, and integrating family planning into broader development goals. Focusing on Francophone West Africa and East Africa, the program employs tools like behavioral economics and…April 2016Global Health
- The United Nations’ first Every Woman Every Child strategy, Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, provided an impetus “to improve the health of hundreds of millions of women and children around the world and, in so doing, to improve the lives of all people.” The updated Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents' Health calls for an even more ambitious agenda of…September 2015Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing
- Cancer clinical trials are important for resolving cancer health disparities for several reasons; however, clinical trial participation among African Americans is significantly lower than Caucasians. This study engaged focus groups of 82 female African American cancer survivors or cancer caregivers, including those in better resourced, more urban areas and less resourced, more rural areas.…June 2014Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing
- Objective: Training midlevel providers (MLPs) to conduct surgical abortions and manage medical abortions has been proposed as a way to increase women’s access to safe abortion. This paper reviews the evidence that compares the effectiveness and safety of abortion procedures administered by MLPs versus doctors. Methods: A systematic search was conducted of published trials and comparison studies…January 2013Abortion, Contraceptive Use/Access
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