Practical Playbook III - Working Together to Improve Maternal Health

The Practical Playbook III brings together voices of experience and authority to answer the most challenging questions in maternal health, providing concrete tools and strategies for researchers, community activists, and advocates of maternal health to improve health outcomes.

List of contents

• Foreword by Brian C. Castrucci


• Acknowledgments


• Contributors


• Section I. Introduction


• 1. Why a Practical Playbook about Working together to Improve Maternal Health?


• Alisahah Jackson, Dorothy Cilenti, Lindsey Yates, Sarah Verbiest, J. Lloyd Michener, and Natalie D. Hernandez


• 2. Promoting Federal Partnerships for Effective Program Implementation


• Clara E. Busse, Sandra Lloyd, Ashley Wilkes, and Catherine J. Vladutiu


• 3. How Academic Centers Can Accelerate Partnerships and Progress in Maternal Health


• Alison M. Stuebe


• 4. Transformational Maternal and Child Health through Expanded Health Care Coordination and Community Engagement


• Ahmed Calvo Lyndsey Stadtmueller, Anita Isama, Erica O'Neill, and Mark Loafman


• 5. Improving MCH Outcomes: An Opportunity for Expanded Primary Health Care Teams


• Mark Loafman, Kenya Thomas, Anita Isama, and Ahmed Calvo


• 6. It's Not a Flip of the Switch: One Health Care System's Collaborative Approach to Engaging External Partners to Support the Maternity Journey


• Brisa Urquieta de Hernandez, Christine Brocato, Manoja Lecamwasam, and Anuradhika Anuradhika


• Section II. Collaboration


• 7. Collaborations to Improve Maternal Health


• Dorothy Cilenti and Ruth Buzi


• 8. Extending the Reach of Maternal Health Practice into New Zones of Transformation with the Framework for Aligning Sectors


• Daniel Lanford, Karen Minyard, Leigh Alderman, Japera Hemming, Chris Parker, and Tanisa Adimu


• 9. An Approach for Whole-person Health: Oral Health Care Integration for Improved Maternal Outcomes


• Timothy L. Ricks and Zachary A. Brian


• 10. What it REALLY takes to Succeed: Practical Tips for Maternal Health Collaboration


• Plia Hanson and Kimberly Sherman


• 11. Bringing together Clinical and Community Partners for Better Patient Care: Bootheel Perinatal Network


• Barbara Gleason, Rebecca Burger, Morgan Nesselrodt, Susan Kendig, and Tanisa Adimu


• 12. A Community Approach to Addressing Inequities in Maternal Health


• Deidre McDaniel, Valerie Newsome Garcia, Karen Chustz, Saanie Sulley, Deborah Frazier, and Haywood Brown


• 13. The Broward Healthy Start Program: Cross-Sector Collaboration: Improving Pregnancy Outcomes and Birth Equity Using a Collective Impact Framework


• Marci Ronik, Monica Figueroa King, Sharetta Remikie, and Roneé Wilson


• 14. Impacting Maternal and Prenatal Care Together: A Harris County/Houston Collaborative


• June Hanke, Jamie Freeny, and Ruth S. Buzi


• 15. Activating Our Village in LA County: Birth Equity and Black Families


• Sonya Young Aadam, Deborah Allen, Brandi Desjolais, Melissa Franklin, Adjoa Jones, Helen O'Connor, Kaci Patterson, and Sylvia Swilley


• Section III. Equity


• 16. Centering Equity: Systemic Racism and Social Determinants of Maternal Health


• Natalie D. Hernandez and Tamaron Johnson


• 17. Historical Context Matters: Structural Racism, Maternal Health and Reproductive Justice


• Christine M. Velez and M. Mercedes Ávila


• 18. Equity and Systemic Racism


• Jonathan Webb


• 19. Maternal Health Equity: A Consensus-Driven Definition and Research Priorities


• Elizabeth A. Mosley


• 20. Redesigning Systems with Black Women to Improve Maternal Health in Atlanta


• Jemea Dorsey and Kaprice Welsh


• 21. Doulas and Incarcerated Populations


• Crystal Hayes and Marisa Pizii


• 22. Environmental Impacts on Maternal Health


• Michele Okoh


• 23. Re-Imagining Prenatal Care: Designing a Justice-Conscious Approach to Reproductive Health, Pregnancy, and Early Parenthood


• Keegan Warren-Clem and Daphne McGee


• Section IV. Data


• 24. Using and Improving Maternal Health Data to Achieve Equity


• Lindsey Yates


• 25. Democratizing Data: Understanding the Challenges and Opportunities for Community-Based Utilization of Maternal Mortality Data and Maternal Health Interventions


• Athena Cross and Pam Silberman


• 26. Decolonizing Maternal Health Research: An Introduction to Indigenous Research Methods and a Decolonial Framework for Indigenous Maternal Health Research


• Alayah Jennings-Johnson


• 27. Garbage In, Garbage Out: Examining How Maternal Health Data Tools Misuse Race


• Marie V. Plaisime


• 28. Maternal Health and Gathering Evidence of Structural Racism


• Lauri Andress


• 29. Using Narrative Medicine and Longitudinal Qualitative Research to Examine Maternal Health Outcomes


• Burcu Bozkurt


• 30. Culturally Responsive Evaluation


• Kimberley Broomfield-Massey, Rakiah Anderson, Calondra Tibbs, and Christine Tucker


• Section V. Innovations


• 31. Innovations to Improve Maternal Health


• Sarah Verbiest and Monica Beltran


• 32. Respectful Care and Reproductive Justice as Foundations for Maternal Health Innovation


• Aja Clark Phoebe Wescott, Amy Ushry, Kiara Cruz, Christie Allen, and Inas Mahdi


• 33. Women's Health Before, Between, Beyond, and Regardless of Pregnancy


• Sarah Verbiest, Suzanne Woodward, and Lindsey Yates


• 34. Innovation in Systems of Postpartum Care


• Kimberly D. Harper, Nkechi Charles, Amelia N. Gibson, and Kristin P. Tully


• 35. The Integral Role of Community-Based Doulas in Supporting Birth Equity


• Twylla Dillion and Zainab Sulaiman


• 36. From Grassroots to Telecommunication Innovation: Bridging the Gap in Perinatal Mental Health


• Chris Raines and Wendy Davis


• 37. Using a Learning Community Model to Address Substance Misuse and Co-Occurring Mental Health Challenges among MCH Populations


• Sanaa Akbarali, Ramya Dronamraju, Katrin Patterson, Ellen Pliska, and Christine Mackie


• 38. Innovations in Virtual Care


• Leslie deRosset, Halle Neeley, and Aunchalee Palmquist


• Section VI. Systems and Scalability


• 39. Scaling Up and Sustaining Improvements in Maternal Health Equity


• J. Lloyd Michener


• 40. Role of HRSA's Maternal and Child Health Bureau in Supporting States and Communities to Advance Maternal Health Equity


• Michael D. Warren, Kathy K. Best Erin Patton, and Belinda Pettiford


• 41. Driving Access, Health Equity, and Innovation in Maternal Health Care through Medicaid


• Jessica C. Smith, Emily Heberlein, Angie Snyder, and Karen Minyard


• 42. Role of Academic Health Systems in Improving and Sustaining Maternal Health


• Olufunmilayo Chinekezi, Karey Sutton, Crista Johnson-Agbakwu, and Yhenneko Taylor


• 43. Building a Maternal Health Workforce to Advance Equity, Partnerships, and Healthy Communities


• Amy J. Mullenix and M. Kathryn Menard


• 44. The Role of the Family Physician in Pregnancy Care: Striving for Birth Equity and Reducing Maternal Morbidity and Mortality


• Julie K. Wood


• 45. Employing Policy and Advocacy for Sustainable Decline in Maternal Mortality and Maternal Health Inequities


• Anna Kheyfets, Maria Gabriela Ruiz, Keri Carvalho, Candace Stewart, and Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha,


• 46. Sustainability and Finance: The Role of State and Territorial Health Agencies


• Ellen Pliska, Britta Cedergren, Kristin Sullivan, Melissa Touma, Karl Ensign, Sowmya Kuruganti, Deborah Backman, Alex Wheatley, Shannon Vance, Sanaa Akbarali, and Kimberlee Wyche-Etheridge


• 47. How State-Based Foundations Can Leverage Collaboration to Improve Maternal Health: A Case Study from California


• Dana G. Smith and Stephanie Teleki


• 48. Role of AHEC in Improving Maternal Health


• Adam J. Zolotor, Jill M. Forcina, Tara Owens Shuler, and Hugh H. Tilson, Jr.


• 49. Rural Local Health Departments as Critical Access Points for Maternal Health Equity


• Lisa Macon Harrison and Abigail Kenney


• Section VII. Conclusion


• 50. The Journey Forward


• Dorothy Cilenti, Alisahah Jackson, Natalie D. Hernandez, Lindsey Yates, Sarah Verbiest, and J. Lloyd Michener

About the author

Dorothy Cilenti is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.

Alisahah Jackson is CEO of Why Health Matters.

Natalie D. Hernandez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Morehouse School of Medicine.

Lindsey Yates is a Postdoctoral Trainee in the Center of Excellence in the Department of Maternal and Child Health at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.

Sarah Verbiest is a Clinical Professor at the UNC School of Social Work.

J. Lloyd Michener is Professor Emeritus of Community and Family Medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine.

Brian C. Castrucci is CEO of the de Beaumont Foundation.

Summary

The Practical Playbook III brings together voices of experience and authority to answer the most challenging questions in maternal health, providing concrete tools and strategies for researchers, community activists, and advocates of maternal health to improve health outcomes.

Product details

• Authors: Dorothy (Clinical Professor of Maternal a Cilenti
• Assisted by: Brian C. Castrucci (Editor), Castrucci Brian C. (Editor), Dorothy Cilenti (Editor), Natalie D. Hernandez (Editor), Alisahah Jackson (Editor), J. Lloyd Michener (Editor), Michener J. Lloyd (Editor), Sarah Verbiest (Editor), Lindsey Yates (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.06.2024
• EAN: 9780197662984
• ISBN: 978-0-19-766298-4
• No. of pages: 664
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Epidemiology & medical statistics, MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Reproductive Medicine & Technology, MEDICAL / Biostatistics, MEDICAL / Epidemiology, Personal & public health, Reproductive Medicine, Personal and public health / health education, Epidemiology and Medical statistics