The delivery of high quality and equitable care for both mothers and newborns is complex and requires efforts across many sectors. The United States spends more on childbirth than any other country in the world, yet outcomes are worse than other high-resource countries, and even worse for Black and Native American women. There are a variety of factors that influence childbirth, including social determinants such as income, educational levels, access to care, financing, transportation, structural racism and geographic variability in birth settings. It is important to reevaluate the United States' approach to maternal and newborn care through the lens of these factors across multiple disciplines.
Birth Settings in America: Outcomes, Quality, Access, and Choice reviews and evaluates maternal and newborn care in the United States, the epidemiology of social and clinical risks in pregnancy and childbirth, birth settings research, and access to and choice of birth settings.
Table of Contents |
skim chapter | |
|---|---|---|
| Front Matter | i-xiv | |
| Summary | 1-14 | |
| 1 Introduction | 15-44 | |
| 2 Maternal and Newborn Care in the United States | 45-84 | |
| 3 Epidemiology of Clinical Risks in Pregnancy and Childbirth | 85-112 | |
| 4 Systemic Influences on Outcomes in Pregnancy and Childbirth | 113-144 | |
| 5 Issues in Measuring Outcomes by Birth Settings: Data and Methods | 145-160 | |
| 6 Maternal and Newborn Outcomes by Birth Setting | 161-258 | |
| 7 Framework for Improving Birth Outcomes Across Birth Settings | 259-302 | |
| References | 303-344 | |
| Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff | 345-352 | |
| Board on Children, Youth, and Families | 353-354 | |
What can the U.S. maternity care system learn from the international experience? Drawing lessons from international examples and pockets of high-performing care in the United States, Birth Settings in America identifies ways to improve childbirth services in hospitals, birth centers, and home birth settings.
Science shows opportunities for improving care across birth settings. Home, birth center, and hospital birth settings each offer risks and benefits to pregnant people and newborns. While no setting is risk free, we can modify risks within each setting and across settings. And, we can make birth safer for all with greater integration throughout the maternity care system.
How can we improve pregnant people’s choice and access to the full range of birth settings and types of maternity care providers? Pregnant individuals should be able to make informed decisions about the care they receive during pregnancy. But an individual’s choice in birth setting may be limited by their access to care.
Childbirth services play a critical role in the provision of health care in the United States, but some pregnant people experience a gap between the care they expect and deserve and the care they need. How can maternity care providers in all settings help reduce this gap?
The National Academies Press and the Transportation Research Board have partnered with Copyright Clearance Center to offer a variety of options for reusing our content. You may request permission to:
For most Academic and Educational uses no royalties will be charged although you are required to obtain a license and comply with the license terms and conditions.
For information on how to request permission to translate our work and for any other rights related query please click here.
For questions about using the Copyright.com service, please contact:
Copyright Clearance Center
22 Rosewood Drive
Danvers, MA 01923
Tel (toll free): 855/239-3415 (select option 1)
E-mail: info@copyright.com
Web: https://www.copyright.com
Loading stats for Birth Settings in America: Outcomes, Quality, Access, and Choice...
Finding similar items...
