Additional Resources

The following resources contain additional information related to maternal health.

• Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System
• Enhancing Reviews and Surveillance to Eliminate Maternal Mortality (ERASE MM)
• Pregnancy-Related Deaths: Data from Maternal Mortality Review Committees in 36 US States, 2017–2019
• Vital Signs: Press Release – Pregnancy-related deaths happen before, during, and up to a year after delivery [English]
• Vital Signs: Pregnancy-Related Deaths, United States, 2011–2015, and Strategies for Prevention, 13 States, 2013–2017, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• CDC Grand Rounds: Meeting the Challenges of Measuring and Preventing Maternal Mortality in the United States

• Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
• CDC Levels of Care Assessment Tool (CDC LOCATe)
• Review to Action
• National Network of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives

• How Head Start Services Can Improve Outcomes for Birthing Parents
• Health Resources & Services Administration—Maternal Morbidity & Mortality
• Office on Women’s Health—Pregnancy
• Office on Women’s Health—Talking Postpartum Depression
• National Institutes of Health—National Child and Maternal Health Education Program

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Maternal Mortality Prevention
  • ACOG Committee Opinion No. 736: Optimizing Postpartum Care
• Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN): Post-birth Warning Signs Education Program 
• Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM) Patient Safety Bundles
• Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine

• Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP)—Maternal Health
• March of Dimes
• Merck for Mothers
• Preeclampsia Foundation