Overview
- Offers critical interdisciplinary analysis of American culture values in decision-making on maternal healthcare policy
- Discusses cultural values driving systemic conditions and social determinants of health impacting maternal outcomes
- Assesses cultural and historical messages that permeate decision-making about maternal health across multiple sectors
Part of the book series: Global Maternal and Child Health (GMCH)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Maternal Health, American Cultural Values, and the Social Determinants of Health
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The Lived Experience of American Mothers
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Community Forces Influencing Maternal Health
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Keywords
- social determinants of maternal health
- maternal health outcomes in the USA
- cultural and historical messages about motherhood
- cultural decision-making affecting motherhood
- impact of culture on institutionalized maternal health policies
- public health safety net and maternal health
- COVID-19 and maternal health
- media messages and motherhood
- life course and motherhood
- diversity and maternal health outcomes
- changing status in motherhood role
- mental health and illness of women of childbearing age
- fertility of American women
- body image and American cultural norms
- immigrant and refugee mothers
- cultural perceptions and myths about who is fit for motherhood
- cultural wars and maternal autonomy
- community forces influencing maternal health
- justice and maternal health
- basic survival services influencing population health
About this book
This book uniquely explores American cultural values as a factor in maternal health. It looks beyond the social determinants of health as primarily contributing to the escalating maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States.
The United States is an outlier with poor maternal health outcomes and high morbidity/mortality in comparison to other high-resource and many mid-level resource nations. While the social determinants of health identify social and environmental conditions affecting maternal health, they do not answer the broader underlying question of why many American women, in a high-resource environment, experience poor maternal health outcomes. Frequent near-misses, high levels of severe childbearing-related morbidity, and high maternal mortality are comparable to those of lower-resource nations.
This book includes contributions from recognized medical and cultural anthropologists, and diverse clinical and public health professionals. The authors examine American patterns of decision-making from the perspectives of intersecting social, cultural, and medical values influencing maternal health outcomes. Using an interdisciplinary critical analysis approach, the work draws upon decision-making theory and life course theory. Topics explored include:
- Cultural values as a basis for decision-making
- Social regard for motherhood
- Immigrants, refugees and undocumented mothers
- Cultural conflicts and maternal autonomy
- Health outcomes among justice-involved mothers
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Barbara A. Anderson, DrPH, CNM, FACNM, FAAN, is professor emerita and a founding director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice at Frontier Nursing University, Lexington, Kentucky. She formerly served as administrative dean at Seattle University College of Nursing, Seattle, Washington, and faculty at Loma Linda University School of Public Health, Loma Linda, California. Promoting and enabling the health of mothers is her lifelong passion and she has deep experience in the USA and globally in public health, nurse-midwifery, and university administration and education. She was lead editor of The maternal health crisis in America: Nursing implications for advocacy and practice (2019)—an American Journal of Nursing (AJN) first-place award winner and lead editor of Best practices in midwifery: Using the evidence to implement change (2013, 2017), also first-place AJN award winner. She co-edited four editions of Caring for the vulnerable: Perspectives in nursing theory,research, and practice (2008, 2012, 2016, 2019) and co-authored a four-volume series on genocide, Warning signs of genocide (2013-2023), based upon genocidal experiences with refugees. She currently serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Childbirth; the community advisory board of an NIH-funded childhood obesity study among low-income Hispanic mothers, University of California at Riverside, School of Medicine; and on the national team for the Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education. She received the National League of Nursing Mary Adelaide Nutting Award for Outstanding Teaching (2019) and the American Association of Birth Centers Media Award (2018). She has been on teams at Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health examining refugee health and cultural competency in maternal health care.
Lisa R. Roberts, Dr.PH, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, is professor and research director, School of Nursing, with secondary appointment in the School of Behavioral Health and a faculty scholar in the Institute for Health Policy and Leadership and the Center for Bioethics, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California. She maintains a full teaching load with graduate students and grant-procurement as research director. She has broad domestic and global experience in maternal health, perinatal grief, and vulnerable populations. Her research has focused on maternal vulnerability and perinatal grief. Also currently in clinical practice as a Nurse Practitioner, she has worked with multiple cultural groups in rural and urban settings in the USA and globally. She served as a consultant for Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health in the development of Cultural competency in maternal health care educational modules for healthcare professionals, and as a panel member for a seminar titled, Why are Black mothers and babies in a life-or-death crisis? A lesson on the disparities in maternal and infant mortality. In 2022 she completed a Fulbright Faculty award as a visiting scholar at Christian Medical College - Vellore, India. She is coeditor of The maternal health crisis in America: Nursing implications for advocacy and practice (2019), coeditor of Midwifery for nurses in India (2018), and an author on role transition among immigrant women in Caring for the Vulnerable: Perspectives in Nursing Theory, Practice, and Research, 4th Ed. (2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Maternal Health and American Cultural Values
Book Subtitle: Beyond the Social Determinants
Editors: Barbara A. Anderson, Lisa R. Roberts
Series Title: Global Maternal and Child Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23969-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23968-7Published: 21 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23971-7Published: 22 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-23969-4Published: 20 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2522-8382
Series E-ISSN: 2522-8390
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 215
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Health, Reproductive Medicine, Obstetrics/Perinatology/Midwifery, American Culture, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, General Practice / Family Medicine