The US public health community has demonstrated increasing awareness of rural health
disparities in the past several years. Although current interest is high, the topic is not new …

In the United States, severe maternal morbidity and mortality is climbing—a reality that is
especially challenging for rural communities, which face declining access to obstetric …

Examining how spatial access to health care varies across geography is key to documenting
structural inequalities in the United States. In this article and the accompanying StoryMap …

Importance National analyses suggest that approximately 1 in 5 US hospitals closed their
pediatric units between 2008 and 2018. The extent to which pediatric hospitalizations at …

Background The US pregnancy-related mortality ratio has not improved over the past
decade and includes striking disparities by race and ethnicity and by state. Understanding …

OBJECTIVE: To assess whether there are associations between driving distance from the
patient residence to the delivery hospital and adverse maternal and perinatal health …

Diagnoses of depression, anxiety, or other mental illness capture just one aspect of the
psychosocial elements of the perinatal period. Perinatal loss; trauma; unstable, unsafe, or …

Maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity, particularly among women of color, have
increased in the United States. The leading medical causes of maternal mortality include …

Importance Rural obstetric unit closures are associated with adverse maternal and infant
health outcomes and are most common among low–birth volume facilities located in remote …

Objective To describe rates and predictors of perinatal intimate partner violence (IPV) and
rates and predictors of not being screened for abuse among rural and urban IPV victims who …