Individual and community-level risk factors for maternal morbidity and mortality among Native American women in the USA: protocol for systematic review.

Introduction: Incidents of maternal morbidity and mortality (MMM) continue to rise in the USA. Significant racial and ethnic health inequities exist, with Native American (NA) women being three to four times more likely to die than white, non-Hispanic women, and three to five times more likely to experience an incident of severe maternal morbidity. Few studies have identified individual and community-level risk factors of MMM experienced by NA women.

Community health worker intervention improves early childhood vaccination rates: results from a propensity-score matching evaluation.

Background: Arizona's Health Start Program is a statewide community health worker (CHW) maternal and child health home visiting intervention. The objective of this study was to test if participation in Health Start during 2006-2016 improved early childhood vaccination completion rates.

Methods: This retrospective study used 11 years of administrative, birth certificate, and immunization records.

Comparison of health confidence in rural, suburban and urban areas in the UK and the USA: a secondary analysis.

Objective: Confidence in healthcare may influence the patients' utilisation of healthcare resources and perceptions of healthcare quality. We sought to determine whether self-reported confidence in healthcare differed between the UK and the USA, as well as by rurality or urbanicity.

Design: A secondary analysis of a subset of survey questions regarding self-reported confidence in healthcare from the 2010 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey.