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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Healthy Women, Healthy Pregnancies, Healthy Futures: Action Plan to Improve Maternal Health in America

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HHS Non-systematic Review

Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Last Reviewed: December 2020

Workgroups: Maternal, Infant, and Child Health Workgroup

This action plan describes steps for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to take to improve the health of mothers in the United States. To meet the goal of making the United States one of the safest countries in the world for women to give birth, the report sets 5-year targets to:

  • Reduce maternal death rates by half
  • Reduce low-risk cesarean deliveries by 25 percent
  • Achieve blood pressure control among 80 percent of women of childbearing age

The plan calls for:

  • Improving prevention and treatment
  • Prioritizing quality improvement
  • Improving health of women before and after giving birth
  • Improving data
  • Supporting research
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Objectives related to this resource (4)

Reduce maternal deaths — MICH‑04
LHI label
Getting worse
Reduce severe maternal complications identified during delivery hospitalizations — MICH‑05
Getting worse
Reduce cesarean births among low-risk women with no prior births — MICH‑06
Getting worse
Increase the proportion of pregnant women who receive early and adequate prenatal care — MICH‑08
Getting worse

Suggested Citation

1.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2020). Healthy Women, Healthy Pregnancies, Healthy Futures: Action Plan to Improve Matneral Health in America. Retrieved from https://aspe.hhs.gov/system/files/aspe-files/264076/healthy-women-healthy-pregnancies-healthy-future-action-plan_0.pdf [PDF - 11.8 MB]