Maternal Health and American Cultural Values
Maternal Health and American Cultural Values: Beyond the Social Determinants
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031239687 | 386 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031239687 | 386 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB
The United States is an outlier with poor maternal health outcomes and high morbidity/mortality in comparison to other high-resource and many mid-level resource nations. While the social determinants of health identify social and environmental conditions affecting maternal health, they do not answer the broader underlying question of why many American women, in a high-resource environment, experience poor maternal health outcomes. Frequent near-misses, high levels of severe childbearing-related morbidity, and high maternal mortality are comparable to those of lower-resource nations.