4sight Health September 17, 2024
Ann Somers Hogg

Maternal health in the U.S. is poor and declining. As a healthcare leader, this isn’t news to you. However, the power you have to improve it might be surprising.

You likely know maternal mortality is worse in the U.S. than any other wealthy nation, and outcomes are the worst for Black Americans. Unfortunately, poor maternal health outcomes perpetuate beyond the first year postpartum. For U.S. mothers, health over the course of their lives is worse than that of fathers or peers without children. The outcomes are so dire the Surgeon General put out an official advisory in August, “Parents Under Pressure.”

The infographic below highlights just how disparate maternal mental and physical health outcomes are and how these issues...

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