Maternal Health

Maternal and infant health matters to EVERY person, society, and country.

Maternal health refers to the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. The lifestyle of a mother affects the infant mortality rate and all aspects of a child’s life.

What About Mom?

Is our innovative, easy to use App made for new moms and their families. The App can identify warning signs for moms after childbirth that might need immediate action.

UNTHSC Healthy Start

Healthy Start works to improve the health and well-being of women, mothers, fathers and infants so that every child in our community has the opportunity to grow and thrive. 

Thank you for attending our 2023 Maternal Health Conference: The Fourth Trimester!

MATERNAL HEALTH STATS

Design
1 %
Of maternal deaths are preventable.
Support
100

Women die every day globally from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.

Digital Marketing
0 %

Nearly half of all countries in the US do not have a single obstetrician providing maternity care.

The U.S. has the highest maternal death rate among the world’s developed nations, a rate that has continued to rise while remaining stable or falling in other developed countries.

Improving Maternal Mortality Curriculum

To improve maternal mortality, we developed a FREE innovative curriculum* using an interactive learning module to teach graduate MCH, nursing students, and community health workers critical thinking, communication, and cultural competency skills, improving health literacy practices to increase women’s understanding of abnormal postpartum systems that require emergency medical attention and their ability to seek adequate care. 

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