A scholarship program that trains people from rural communities is expected to lower access and affordability barriers faced by rural residents across the U.S.

However, starting last spring, the federal government has reversed course on longstanding vaccine guidance. First, the ...

With hospital financing largely tailored to urban contexts, a growing number of rural hospitals are closing their doors, leaving many rural residents without a place to go for care. Since 2005, nearly ...

Roughly 55 percent of Medicaid enrollees are working full or part time, and a number aren’t eligible for health insurance through their jobs. Read more in an explainer here. Texas’s new abortion law, ...

Strengthening the standards to which Medicaid managed care organizations are held would likely improve access to and delivery of high-quality postpartum care.

Despite the critical role of primary care physicians (PCPs) in preventive care and chronic disease management, PCPs lack support for their mental and physical well-being, resulting in pervasive ...

Americans’ Health Declines and Access to Reproductive Care Shrinks, But States Have Options Deaths from preventable and treatable causes increased rapidly with the arrival of COVID-19, leading to ...

In 2017, at a time when maternal mortality was declining worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the U.S. was one of only two countries (along with the Dominican Republic) to ...

This brief was originally published in December 2020 and updated in July 2025. In 2023, at a time when maternal mortality was declining worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the ...

Maternal morbidity encompasses physical and psychological conditions resulting from, or aggravated by, pregnancy. These conditions do not necessarily lead to death, but they can have a negative impact ...

In the United States, the risk of dying from pregnancy-related causes is more than four times higher for someone giving birth in Louisiana than in California, and a child born in Mississippi is nearly ...

A well-functioning public health system is vital to keeping individuals, and the population at large, safe and healthy. Success in public health, however, is often invisible — we don’t notice until ...