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D617 Public Health Core Functions and Essential
Services |Task 1- Create Annotated Bibliography for
scenarios 2025-2026 Western Governors University
Annotated Bibliography
Student’s name
Institutional Affiliation
Course
Instructor
Date
, 2
Annotated Bibliography
Ahn, R., Gonzalez, G. P., Anderson, B., Vladutiu, C. J., Fowler, E. R., & Manning, L. (2020).
Initiatives to reduce maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity in the United
States: A narrative review. Annals of Internal Medicine, 173(11_Supplement), S3-S10.
Ahn, R., et al. 2020, gives an in-depth look at the many programs and policies that were
put in place in the US from 2003 to 2018 with the goal of lowering avoidable maternal deaths
and serious maternal illness. The review talks about ways to improve obstetric care, like
making Medicaid cover more of the pregnancy and postpartum time, making mother data
systems better so that risk factors can be found more easily, and setting up review panels to
look into the things that cause deaths. This study is relevant to maternal and child health as it
will help with the creation of a multifaceted, evidence-based prevention program that looks at
both better professional care and the social factors that affect health.
Bernet, P., Gumus, G., & Vishwasrao, S. (2020). Maternal mortality and public health programs:
evidence from Florida. The Milbank Quarterly, 98(1), 150-171.
Bernet, P., et al. (2020) use Florida vital statistics and Medicaid enrollment data to look
at how expanding Medicaid for pregnant women affected the number of women who got
prenatal care and the death rate for mothers between 1989 and 2015. The study uses a
differences-in- differences design to account for variables that could affect the results. It finds
that expanding Medicaid was linked to a 12% rise in women getting the care they needed
before they got pregnant and a statistically significant 11% drop in overall maternal mortality,
with a 26% drop among Black women. This shows that growing health insurance can help
reduce gaps by making
D617 Public Health Core Functions and Essential
Services |Task 1- Create Annotated Bibliography for
scenarios 2025-2026 Western Governors University
Annotated Bibliography
Student’s name
Institutional Affiliation
Course
Instructor
Date
, 2
Annotated Bibliography
Ahn, R., Gonzalez, G. P., Anderson, B., Vladutiu, C. J., Fowler, E. R., & Manning, L. (2020).
Initiatives to reduce maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity in the United
States: A narrative review. Annals of Internal Medicine, 173(11_Supplement), S3-S10.
Ahn, R., et al. 2020, gives an in-depth look at the many programs and policies that were
put in place in the US from 2003 to 2018 with the goal of lowering avoidable maternal deaths
and serious maternal illness. The review talks about ways to improve obstetric care, like
making Medicaid cover more of the pregnancy and postpartum time, making mother data
systems better so that risk factors can be found more easily, and setting up review panels to
look into the things that cause deaths. This study is relevant to maternal and child health as it
will help with the creation of a multifaceted, evidence-based prevention program that looks at
both better professional care and the social factors that affect health.
Bernet, P., Gumus, G., & Vishwasrao, S. (2020). Maternal mortality and public health programs:
evidence from Florida. The Milbank Quarterly, 98(1), 150-171.
Bernet, P., et al. (2020) use Florida vital statistics and Medicaid enrollment data to look
at how expanding Medicaid for pregnant women affected the number of women who got
prenatal care and the death rate for mothers between 1989 and 2015. The study uses a
differences-in- differences design to account for variables that could affect the results. It finds
that expanding Medicaid was linked to a 12% rise in women getting the care they needed
before they got pregnant and a statistically significant 11% drop in overall maternal mortality,
with a 26% drop among Black women. This shows that growing health insurance can help
reduce gaps by making
