Birth Centers Are Public Health!
Are you a public health professional or organization eager to join in growing birth center infrastructure for generations to come?
Here is a new resource as you build support for investing in birth centers as a core public health priority.
“Birth Centers Are Public Health” is informed by Birth Center Equity (BCE) narrative strategy research and the “Midwifery is Public Health (MIPH)” titled conference hosted by Alicia D. Bonaparte, Keisha Goode and Monica McElmore in spring 2023.
Background
A birth center is a freestanding, homelike place where midwives provide prenatal, birth, and postpartum care (American Association of Birth Centers). A community birth center is a birth center where safe, culturally-reverent care is provided by midwives representative of the community it calls home (Birth Center Equity). Midwives are trained and licensed health care providers who specialize in birth and the reproductive life cycle. Birth centers are the only healthcare facilities designed to center the midwifery model of care. A birth center is both a healthcare facility and a model of care.
Please join us in amplifying the message: Birth centers are public health!
