TY - GEN
T1 - (In)visible choices
T2 - 22nd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2019
AU - Walker, Ashley Marie
AU - DeVito, Michael A.
AU - Ringland, Kathryn E.
AU - Reddy, Madhu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/11/9
Y1 - 2019/11/9
N2 - The US maternal mortality is double that of the UK and Canada and still rising. This is a public health crisis, and draws our atention to systemic issues with US health care, as maternal mortality is a core statistic used to indicate health care quality. Responding to the increasing number of women dying during one of the most common experiences with the medical system will require organizing a diverse group of stakeholders over a long period of time. Due to the unevenly distributed nature of the crisis, with Black women 243% more likely to die in childbirth or from childbirth-related causes will also require us to incorporate underrepresented voices into the current system. To examine these issues, we conducted interviews with public health experts working to address maternal mortality. We found that articulation work practices in public health limit the ability of experts to initiate contact with the very stakeholders they need to build relationships with to address the rise in maternal mortality.
AB - The US maternal mortality is double that of the UK and Canada and still rising. This is a public health crisis, and draws our atention to systemic issues with US health care, as maternal mortality is a core statistic used to indicate health care quality. Responding to the increasing number of women dying during one of the most common experiences with the medical system will require organizing a diverse group of stakeholders over a long period of time. Due to the unevenly distributed nature of the crisis, with Black women 243% more likely to die in childbirth or from childbirth-related causes will also require us to incorporate underrepresented voices into the current system. To examine these issues, we conducted interviews with public health experts working to address maternal mortality. We found that articulation work practices in public health limit the ability of experts to initiate contact with the very stakeholders they need to build relationships with to address the rise in maternal mortality.
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U2 - 10.1145/3311957.3359463
DO - 10.1145/3311957.3359463
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85076096508
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 403
EP - 407
BT - CSCW 2019 Companion - Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 9 November 2019 through 13 November 2019
ER -
