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A new report found that Massachusetts is doing well when it comes to women's and children's health. Still, there are areas for improvement.

The majority of research and public discourse on US maternal mortality focuses on pregnancy-related maternal deaths-;deaths caused or accelerated by a pregnancy-;rather than the broader category of pregnancy-associated maternal deaths, which are deaths from any cause during pregnancy or up to one year postpartum, including those that are pregnancy-related.

This Viewpoint discusses the importance of collaboration among the agencies responsible for documenting rates of maternal mortality to ensure more accurate, rel

An estimated 1.78 million women of reproductive age live in a U.S. county with no access to abortion or maternity care, according to a chilling analysis from ABC News and Boston Children’s Hospital. If the criteria are broadened to include counties with “low access” to maternity care, the number shoots up to 3.7 million women.

The people trapped in these areas may have no choice but to continue their pregnancies without adequate prenatal, delivery, and postpartum care.

D3sign/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Over 1.7 million women, nearly 3% of women of reproductive age in the United States, live in a county without access to abortion and with no access to maternity care, according to an analysis from ABC News and Boston Childrens Hospital. And 3.7 million, or 5.8% of women of reproductive age, live in a county without access to abortion and with no or low access to maternity care. The data reflect an ongoing trend in maternal health in the U.S. found in previous res...

D3sign/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Over 1.7 million women, nearly 3% of women of reproductive age in the United States, live in a county without access to abortion and with no access to maternity care, according to an analysis from ABC News and Boston Childrens Hospital. And 3.7 million, or 5.8% of women of reproductive age, live in a county without access to abortion and with no or low access to maternity care. The data reflect an ongoing trend in maternal health in the U.S. found in previous res...

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D3sign/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Over 1.7 million women, nearly 3% of women of reproductive age in the United States, live in a county without access to

Maternal mortality data collection is inconsistent across states, and the findings of mortality review committees have been politicized.