NIH R01 · 2025
PROJECT SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT Non-Hispanic Black women (NHBW) experience high levels of severe maternal morbidity (SMM), which increases risk for maternal mortality. The causes of SMM are multifactorial. Despite the breadth of knowledge and existing preventive strategies, continuously high rates of SMM outcomes suggest that current efforts alone are insufficient to address this issue Thus, alternate approaches are needed to transform understanding of the causes of SMM and to generate breakthroughs in prevention. We argue that SMM outcomes are best conceptualized as dynamically complex systems, consisting of tightly coupled elements that continually evolve over time. Thus, to address SMM…
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