Beyond Maternal Mortality: How Severe Morbidity Reveals Policy Gaps in Maternal Care
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Description
Provides information about severe maternal morbidity (SMM) in the United States across sociodemographic groups and discusses possible policy interventions, including rural-specific strategies. Examines data on SMM with data broken down by year, state, medical condition, patient demographics, cost of delivery, insurance type, rurality, and hospital type of metro non-teaching, metro teaching, or rural.
Author(s)
Eugene Declercq, Laurie C. Zephyrin
Date
06/2026
Organization
Commonwealth Fund
Tagged as
Health conditions
· Hospitals
· Maternal health and prenatal care
· Policy
· Rural-urban differences
· Statistics and data
· Women