Maternal & Child Health Resource Center
Maternal & Child Health Resource Center – Introduction & Purpose
This Maternal & Child Health Resource Center was created to help organizations and their workforces: 1) improve the quality of maternity and perinatal care through culturally and linguistically appropriate service delivery; and 2) eliminate disparities in maternal and infant health outcomes and foster birth equity and justice across diverse populations. Introduction: The Quest for Birth Equity and Justice – Now is the Time
The resources shared have been organized into the following sections:
- Fostering Respectful & Trustworthy Maternity Care
- Addressing Implicit/Unconscious Bias in Maternity Care
- Improving Maternal Health & Maternity Care – Cultural Competence & Implicit Bias Continuing Education Programs
- Advancing Maternal & Child Health Equity in Diverse Populations
- Advancing Maternal & Child Health Equity – Videos & TED Talks
- New Jersey Maternal & Child Health Resources
Links to the following types of resources are posted: Articles, Research Studies, Policy Reports, Fact Sheets, Guides/Toolkits, Videos, and Websites. Brief descriptive annotations are also provided.
ADEPT would like to acknowledge and thank the New Jersey Department of Health for providing the funding support needed to develop this Maternal & Child Health Resource Center. We hope that the further dissemination and use of these resources will prove helpful and relevant for hospitals, birthing centers, clinicians, other health care, public health, and human services professionals, patients/families/consumers, educators, researchers, advocates, employers, policy makers, and other interested maternal and child health organizations.
Curated by:
Robert C. Like, MD, MS
Emeritus Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
