The Implications of Using Maternity Care Deserts to Measure Progress in Access to Obstetric Care: A Mixed-Integer Optimization Analysis

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Compares geographic access to critical care obstetric (CCO) services in Georgia via a county-level maternal care desert model versus a model of census blocks further than 50 miles from CCO services. Uses each model to estimate how expansion of facilities would affect access to care, and also to estimate race and ethnicity, insurance status, age, and poverty rate of reproductive-aged women with limited access to care using 2017 American Community Survey data.

Meghan E. Meredith, Lauren N. Steimle, Stephanie M. Radke

BMC Health Services Research, 24, 682

05/2024

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Access · Health insurance · Hospitals · Maternal health and prenatal care · Medicaid · Poverty · Racial and ethnic groups · Statistics and data · Women · Georgia