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Deportation and the Traumatizing of a Generation
With less than five weeks to go before welcoming a second child, the patient sat in my exam room in tears. By all accounts, this was a routine appointment at the end of a routine pregnancy. Except on...
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Rural Postpartum Mental Health: the Challenge to Improve
Postpartum depression is common, preventable, and treatable. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) challenge competition, “Cross-Sectional Innovation to Improve Rural Postpartum Mental...
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Racism in Reproductive Care and Beyond
As I scrolled through Ms. Jones’ chart, I jotted down her chronic problems: hypertension, depression, and urinary incontinence. She was taking lisinopril and sertraline. She had seen gynecology back in...
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Turning From Obstetric Violence to Birth Justice
The US maternal mortality rate is higher than it was a quarter of a century ago. For every one person that dies, another 65 almost die. We do not adequately care for mothers and mothers-to-be. Not only...
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Defining Birth Equity in Kansas – Birth Equity Series Part 1
The pace of progress is never fast enough for those who stand to suffer the biggest losses. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the glaring health inequities impacting Black mothers and babies in...
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Words Matter in Creating Birth Equity – Birth Equity Series Part 2
While some health outcomes improve in the United States, racial and ethnic disparities in pregnancy-related outcomes persist. In the United States, Black women are three times more likely to die from a...
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Parent Perspectives on Birth Equity – Birth Equity Series Part 3
In the United States, 700 women die every year from often preventable pregnancy or childbirth complications. An additional 60,000 more experience highly preventable birth injuries. Black women are...
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December 2021 Podcast
In this episode of our new podcast series, Jess Williams, co-editor, recaps the blog posts we published on The Medical Care Blog in November and previews the December issue of Medical Care. As a bonus,...
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Retrospective: On Reproductive Health Care
The Medical Care Blog is returning from its summer break this month. We hope you are feeling recharged and ready to dig deep again into health care and public health. We’re beginning with a series of...
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Postpartum Depression is Overlooked and Undertreated
The postpartum period, recognized as the fourth trimester or the 12 weeks after birth, is often overlooked. In 2021, 52% of all maternal deaths occurred during the postpartum period. And mental health...
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