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Pregnancy-Related Mortality and Severe Maternal Morbidity in Rural Appalachia: Established Risks and the Need to Know More.

Anna C HansenMairead Moloney
Published in: The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association (2019)
To address these issues and the concerning lack of data, we propose 4 directions for future study: (1) a determination of the prevalence of pregnancy-related death and severe maternal morbidity in this population; (2) an examination of how rural women utilize existing pre- and perinatal resources; (3) better validation concerning surveillance methods of pregnancy-related death and severe maternal morbidity in rural areas; and (4) an exploratory qualitative study of rural women and health care providers.
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