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Adelisa Bencomo

10/3/21, 1:17 AM

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Access to Maternal Healthcare in the US and the UK

Access to maternal healthcare varies in different geographical settings depending on several issues. They include the number of trained personnel and the available health payment systems. The UK has better access to maternal health compared to the US.

The US has a general shortage of maternity care providers relative to the number of births. Notably, midwives are critical care providers trained to offer a wide range of maternity services. On the other hand, in some cases, the obstetrics-gynecology experts can give a hand in providing the same services. However, generally, midwives-led approaches have a better outcome in comparison to that of obstetrician-gynecologist led approaches. The US, in this note, has a lower supply of midwives and ob-gyns (Tikkanen et al., 2020). They have approximately 12 to 15 care providers in a thousand live births. Contrary to this, the UK has a higher number of midwives.

The UK also have more option of birth settings. In this sense, according to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, it recommends that birth centres and home births can be an option to give birth for low-risk mothers. These settings have a greater chance of offering normal vaginal births, episiotomies or blood transfusions. On the other hand, according to Jolles et al.(2020), the American Medical Community discourages the utilization of low-risk birth centres. Therefore, home-based deliveries, while on the other hand, hospital-based deliveries, are highly encouraged.

 

References

Jolles, D., Stapleton, S., Wright, J., Alliman, J., Bauer, K., Townsend, C., & Hoehn‐Velasco, L. (2020). Rural resilience: The role of birth centers in the United States. Birth, 47(4), 430-437.

Tikkanen, R., Gunja, M. Z., FitzGerald, M., & Zephyrin, L. (2020). Maternal mortality and maternity care in the United States compared to 10 other developed countries. Issue briefs, Commonwealth Fund.

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The United Kingdom’s Vs United State National Health Service

· According to  The World Bank , 28 American mothers die for every 100,000 births — a rate that’s increased in recent years. Only 8 U.K. mothers die per 100,000 births, and that number is decreasing. The U.K provides free or low-cost healthcare to all legal U.K. residents. Women receive free reproductive and maternal healthcare that includes all the tests and treatments available including ultrasounds, genetic testing and high-risk maternal-fetal medicine . The British National System is a social insurance system that operates on the belief that healthcare is a right, not a privilege.

· Today, the average mother in the U.K receives more comprehensive and consistent care, ranging from earlier prenatal appointments to closer monitoring after she gives birth ,that does American counterpart and if mother dies ,the U.K ,investigates and tries to learn from it. Medical authorities in the U.K view maternal deaths as public health failures that underscore deficiencies in health care systems .In the U.S maternal death are too often treated as disconnected ,private tragedies .If they are scrutinized by hospitals or regulators al all ,the finding typically prompt institutional rather than national reforms.

References:

Womersley, K. (2017, August 31). Why giving birth is safer in Britain than in the U.S. ProPublica. Retrieved September 29, 2021, from https://www.propublica.org/article/why-giving-birth-is-safer-in-britain-than-in-the-u-s

US vs UK: Comparing Medical and Allied Healthcare Services. (2016, March 28).

Retrieved from https://www.aimseducation.edu/blog/us-vs-uk-allied-healthcare/