By Sarah Heath, March 12, 2020, Patient Engagement
A package of legislative proposals aims to prop social determinants of health funding to target black maternal health disparities.
The package of nine bills, titled the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2020, is sponsored by Representatives Lauren Underwood and Alma Adams, as well as Senator Kamala Harris.
The legislation builds on existing laws focusing on black maternal health disparities specifically by supplanting efforts to address social determinants of health, grow community-based healthcare options, diversify the perinatal workforce, improve data and quality measures, and reform certain payment models in such a way that disparities may shrink.
Racial and ethnic maternal health disparities continue to persist, even as maternal mortality rates drop around the globe. According to 2019 figures from the CDC, black, American Indian, and Alaska Native women are two to three times more likely to die from childbirth than white women.
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