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Employing telehealth to boost maternal health equity

By August 12, 2024No Comments

Source: TechTarget | xtelligent Virtual Healthcare

By: Anuja Vaidya, Senior Editor

UC Davis Health is using telehealth to improve postpartum visit attendance among Black people, thereby enhancing maternal health equity and closing care gaps.

Being Black and pregnant in America can be a deadly combination. With Black women being twice as likely to die during or soon after childbirth than white women, interventions to improve Black maternal outcomes are urgently needed. Some healthcare organizations are turning to virtual care tools to close the care gaps facing the Black birthing population.

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