Rigorous studies carried out by the National Center for Health Statistics show that previously
reported increases in maternal mortality rates in the United States were an artifact of …

Despite the mounting research on gender inequality in the workplace, progress toward
gender parity in organizational practice has stalled. We suggest that one reason for the lack …

Background Despite the tenets of rights‐based, person‐centered maternity care, racialized
groups, low‐income people, and people who receive Medicaid insurance in the United …

There is a recurrent call for effective implicit bias (IB) education within health professions
education (HPE). We aimed to explore the state of IB education within HPE for clinical …

Aim To examine factors that influence intrapartum health outcomes among Black
childbearing persons, including cisgender women, transmasculine and gender‐diverse …

Importance There is limited evidence of the association of conditional cash transfers, an
important strategy to reduce poverty, with prevention of adverse birth-related outcomes …

There has been increasing national attention to the issue of racial disparities in pregnancy-
related deaths. Federal legislation can support approaches at multiple levels of intervention …

There is growing diversity within the Black population in the US, but limited understanding of
ethnic and nativity differences in the mental health treatment needs of Black women. This …

Purpose: Black pregnant individuals in Alabama are disproportionately affected by severe
maternal morbidity and mortality (SMM). To understand why racial disparities in maternal …

Background Obstetric causes are classified as direct (complications of pregnancy, childbirth
or the puerperium) or indirect (caused by pregnancy but not directly caused by it). This study …