What can I do as a healthcare professional?

Vote
Contact your local representatives and elected officials
Advocate to your healthcare leadership
Find out what your state is doing for maternal mortality and how you can get involved
Learn/Educate Yourself
Understand Racism in the healthcare system
Learn about research and studies in how racism affects care
Know the urgent maternal health warning signs
Share information in your network

What can public health systems do?

Promote continuity of care and extended insurance coverage
Invest in electronic health record systems
Establish formal maternal health care collaboratives
Ensure that women have access to health information and services immediately after birth
Educate providers and promote cultural shifts within the profession that will help change harmful patterns and practices
Ensure that health providers receive training on implicit bias, class and gender bias, anti-racism, and human rights in the practice of health care

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Black mothers in the U.S. are dying at similar levels as mothers in developing countries. This is unacceptable and it is time for a change.

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