Understanding the evidence on maternal mortality and its causes is a key to crafting solutions; this brief describes the state of U.S. maternal health in 2025.

H.R. 1, signed into law by President Trump on July 4, 2025, will have wide-ranging impact. The consequences for people with ...

This guide contains best practices in sustainability communication, advice on how CSOs can talk to key audiences, and a list ...

Consumer choice in health care has been advanced as a pathway for improving the quality and affordability of health care. The idea is that when people have access to full and accurate information ...

U.S. policymakers and delivery system leaders could learn from international models of maternity care, including for postpartum support and workforce composition.

Abstract Issue: Federal officials have significant flexibility in implementing the Affordable Care Act and can adopt different positions based on an administration’s preferred policy goals. The Biden ...

In addition to its expansion and reform of health insurance coverage, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) contains numerous provisions intended to resolve underlying problems in how health care is delivered ...

By Robin Gauld, University of Otago, New Zealand New Zealand has achieved universal health coverage through a mostly publicly funded, regionally administered delivery system. Services covered include ...

There are three commonly used measures of maternal deaths in the United States. It is important to note that, while they all capture some aspect of maternal deaths, they are not equivalent.

This brief presents findings from the Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey to describe the state of Americans’ health insurance coverage in 2024.

Despite the importance of prevention to good health, a lawsuit threatens to upend the gains realized by the Affordable Care Act’s preventive services guarantee.