Maternal Healthcare Project: Prenatal Mortality Statistics

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Are you looking to help examine healthcare trends in the United States of America? Looking to help alleviate disparities in healthcare especially for women and minority populations? According to the WHO, the maternal mortality rate in the United States of America is equivalent to Papua New Guinea, a developing country. It is only country with such a high mortality rate that is considered a developed nation. Women of color and from minority ethnicities have double the rate of maternal mortality in comparison to women who are not from minority populations. The Maternal Healthcare Project:Prenatal Care and Pregnancy Related Deaths will be looking at women who are impacted by health issues such as pre-eclampsia, endometriosis, cardiovascular diseases, and other data points discussed during the meeting Sunday. The scope of the project is as follows:
Examine trends in healthcare provided for women of African descent, Caucasian descent, different levels of income, and quality of prenatal healthcare provided.
Examine extenuating factors such as prior medical coverage, type of healthcare used (PPO, HMO, ACA, etc.).
Look at establishing trends between policies by state (i.e. prenatal care is not required to be covered by insurance companies in all 50 states), health factors (i.e. women from this ethnic group have a tendency to have pre-eclampsia).
Find comparisons between maternal mortality rates in different countries and how different health policies/genetic backgrounds can impact health.
Come up with policy suggestions based on research that can help with alleviating the problem.
This project will be extremely fascinating because we will be looking at genetics, epidemiological data, political science, gender and ethnic studies, and economic policies. We will be looking at data from endometriosis in women to how surgical studies are carried out. The great part of the project is that there is a little bit for everyone. Even Melinda Gates has outlined an initiative to look at alleviating maternal mortality rates. Are you interested? Join our Google Hangouts meeting at 8 a.m. CST on Monday January 21. Here is the Google Calendar link: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=alu32dpe86i8n0sd3ub5otn9ho%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FChicago , exploratory notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Je6-L3EM6NPgvgs1S0pKW9W1_u_7t1fk , project proposal/brainstorming document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11rKo9r3q0akyz1jkfm3dhlklFzlnpjIQdTemubXjPBQ/edit?usp=sharing, and pertinent dataset: https://pregnancycolab.tghn.org/articles/collect-database/. My email is [email protected]. Please please please, if you are interested, @ me on Slack. I will receive an email if you do! Thanks everyone! I look forward to seeing you Sunday! (Psst… I need to have a good meeting time, and I would like to know who is interested to schedule the meeting!)