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The statements and opinions contained in proceedings are those of the participants and are not endorsed by other participants, the planning committee, or the National Academies. For information about other products and activities of the National Academies, please visit www.nationalacademies.org/about/whatwedo. Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Birth Settings in America: Outcomes, Quality, Access, and Choice PREPUBLICATION COPY, UNCORRECTED PROOFS COMMITTEE ON ASSESSING HEALTH OUTCOMES BY BIRTH SETTINGS SUSAN C. SCRIMSHAW, (Chair), Former President, The Sage Colleges JILL ALLIMAN, Frontier Nursing University WANDA BARFIELD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (resigned March 2019) MELISSA CHEYNEY, Oregon State University MICHELLE R. COLLINS, Rush University College of Nursing BROWNSYNE TUCKER EDMONDS, Indiana University School of Medicine WENDY GORDON, Bastyr University MARIAN FRANCES MACDORMAN, Maryland Population Research Center M. KATHRYN MENARD, University of North Carolina KAREN MILGATE, Karen Milgate Health Policy Consulting JOCHEN PROFIT, Stanford University CAROL SAKALA, National Partnership for Women & Families NEEL SHAH, Harvard Medical School and Ariadne Labs KATHLEEN RICE SIMPSON, Mercy Hospital Saint Louis RUTH E. ZAMBRANA, University of Maryland EMILY P. BACKES, Study Director ELIZABETH S. HOWE-HUIST, Associate Program Officer DARA SHEFSKA, Associate Program Officer MARY GHITELMAN, Senior Program Assistant LESLEY WEBB, Senior Program Assistant (through October 2019) LORI TREGO, NAM Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence (through August 2019) BRIDGET B. KELLY, Consultant ERIN HAMMERS FORSTAG, Technical Writer v Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Birth Settings in America: Outcomes, Quality, Access, and Choice PREPUBLICATION COPY, UNCORRECTED PROOFS BOARD ON CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES ANGELA DIAZ, (Chair), Department of Pediatrics and Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai DAVID V. B. BRITT (Co-chair), Sesame Workshop (retired CEO) HAROLYN BELCHER, Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine RICHARD F. CATALANO, School of Social Work, University of Washington DIMITRI CHRISTAKIS, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, University of Washington JEFFREY W. HUTCHINSON, The Wade Alliance, LLC STEPHANIE J. MONROE, The Wrenwood Group, LLC JAMES M. PERRIN, Harvard Medical School and MassGeneral Hospital for Children NISHA SACHDEV, Bainum Family Foundation DONALD F. SCHWARZ, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation MARTÍN J. SEPÚLVEDA, IBM Corporation (retired) and CLARALUZ LLC MARTIN H. TEICHER, Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School JONATHAN TODRES, Georgia State University College of Law NATACHA BLAIN, Director PAMELLA ATAYI, Program Coordinator vi Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Birth Settings in America: Outcomes, Quality, Access, and Choice PREPUBLICATION COPY, UNCORRECTED PROOFS PREFACE The United States spends more on childbirth than any other country in the world, with worse outcomes than other high-resource countries, and even worse outcomes for women of color. Our Committee was charged with finding ways to improve these outcomes. We regarded this as an extraordinary opportunity to make recommendations to reverse a trend of increasing negative birth outcomes, do so more economically, and improve the childbirth experience for women and their families. For me, this assignment circled back over three decades to a series of multi-cultural research projects on childbirth, notably with colleagues Christine Dunkel-Schetter and Ruth Zambrana along with many others. Among other things, we did early work associating the experience of racism and low-birthweight for Black women and established