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Building on the ACA: Administrative Actions to Improve Maternal Health Report

Building on the ACA: Administrative Actions to Improve Maternal Health

The United States’ maternal health crisis demands federal and state action to improve coverage, the delivery of care, and pregnancy outcomes. The cost of inaction will almost certainly be dire.

Jamille Fields Allsbrook, Osub Ahmed

Policymakers Must Fund Home Visiting Programs During COVID-19 Report
A father helps his 1-year-old daughter walk as a family support worker visits the family's home, May 2013, in Virginia. (Getty/Matt McClain)

Policymakers Must Fund Home Visiting Programs During COVID-19

In states and tribal communities across the country, home visitors continue to support families’ basic needs and emotional well-being throughout a period of high stress and economic instability brought on by the pandemic and recession.

Cristina Novoa

Health Disparities by Race and Ethnicity Fact Sheet

Health Disparities by Race and Ethnicity

Alleviating stark disparities in health coverage, chronic health conditions, mental health, and mortality across racial and ethnic groups in the United States will require deliberate and long-term efforts.

Sofia Carratala, Connor Maxwell

Community-Based Doulas and Midwives Report
Joey McLeister/Star Tribune Minneapolis,Mn.,Thurs.,April 22, 2004--(Left to right) Hawa Ade was Muna Said Mohamed's doula for the birth of her eighth baby, two-month-old Mariam Mohamed at Fairview University Hospital.  Ade is a doula at Hennepin County Medical Center, too.  Mohamed said she was grateful for the massages from Ade which eased the pain of labor. GENERAL INFORMATION: At Fairview University Hospital, Somali women are helped by Somali doulas before and during birth. (Photo by JOEY MCLEISTER/Star Tribune via Getty Images) (A doula sits with a mother and her 2-month-old baby at a hospital in Minneapolis, April 2004.)

Community-Based Doulas and Midwives

The coronavirus pandemic further emphasizes the need for a range of accessible, affordable options for pregnancy-related care and support.

Nora Ellmann

Opportunities for States To Improve Infant Health Outcomes Report

Opportunities for States To Improve Infant Health Outcomes

Racial and ethnic disparities in infant health outcomes across states show the need for lawmakers to enact policies that will address the country’s infant health crisis.

Cristina Novoa

Interactive: Opportunities for States To Improve Infant Health Outcomes Interactive

Interactive: Opportunities for States To Improve Infant Health Outcomes

This interactive allows users to see states' progress toward implementing policies to improve maternal and infant mortality and eliminate racial disparities in health across three domains: healthy families, economic and work supports, and infant health outcomes.

Cristina Novoa, Mathew Brady

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Tackling Climate Change and Environmental Injustice

Tackling Climate Change and Environmental Injustice

We pursue climate action that meets the crisis’s urgency, creates good-quality jobs, benefits disadvantaged communities, and restores U.S. credibility on the global stage.

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Strengthening Health

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Advancing Racial Equity and Justice

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