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ArticleFrontiers in public health2025

Determining what matters: data resources for examining maternal health equity.

Leremy A Colf, Karina M Shreffler

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Leremy A ColfFran and Earl Ziegler College of Nursing, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, United States.
Karina M ShrefflerFran and Earl Ziegler College of Nursing, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, United States.

Funding

Training and DevelopmentU54HD113173 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HLTH SCIENCES CTR · PI TIMOTHY M VANWAGONER · 2023 to 2026
$9.2M
NICHD NIH HHS U54 HD113173
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Maternal morbidity and mortality (MMM) rates in the U.S. are high and increasing, and are disproportionately experienced by understudied, underrepresented, and underreported (U3) populations, especially Black, Indigenous, and/or rural women. Decreasing MMM among U3 women would substantially improve maternal health equity and health outcomes, yet current data limitations inhibit our ability to fully understand the reasons underlying the disparities or regional nuances. This article calls for leveraging diverse, publicly available data such as deidentified health system utilization data; geocoded locations of hospitals providing multiple levels of maternal care services; and social determinants and demographic data into a series of linked datasets to enable county-level investigations of maternal health equity, healthcare utilization, and health outcomes.

Indexed as

Health EquityMaternal HealthMaternal Health ServicesAdultFemaleHealthcare DisparitiesHumansMaternal MortalityPregnancyRural PopulationSocial Determinants of HealthUnited Statesbirth outcomeshealth equityhealth policylinked datamaternal health

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PMID40093731
PMCPMC11906469

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