Sec. 514. Additional focus area for the Office on Women’s Health
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Section 229(b) of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 237a(b) ) is amended— in paragraph (6), at the end, by striking and ; in paragraph (7), at the end, by striking the period and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following new paragraph: facilitate policymakers, health system leaders and providers, consumers, and other stakeholders in understanding optimal maternity care and support for the provision of such care, including the priorities of— protecting, promoting, and supporting the innate capacities of childbearing women and their newborns for childbirth, breastfeeding, and attachment; using obstetric interventions only when such interventions are supported by strong, high-quality evidence, and minimizing overuse of maternity practices that have been shown to have benefit in limited situations and that can expose women, infants, or both to risk of harm if used routinely and indiscriminately, including continuous electronic fetal monitoring, labor induction, epidural analgesia, primary cesarean section, and routine repeat cesarean birth; reliably incorporating noninvasive, evidence-based practices that have documented correlation with considerable improvement in outcomes with no detrimental side effects, such as smoking cessation programs in pregnancy and proven models of group prenatal care that integrate health assessment, education, and support into a unified program; a shared understanding of the qualifications of licensed providers of maternity care and the best evidence about the safety, satisfaction, outcomes, and costs of their care, and appropriate deployment of such caregivers within the maternity care workforce to address the needs of childbearing women and newborns and the growing shortage of maternity caregivers; a shared understanding of the results of the best available research comparing hospital, birth center, and planned home births, including information about each setting’s safety, satisfaction, outcomes, and costs; and high-quality, evidence-based childbirth education that promotes a natural, healthy, and safe approach to pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenting; is taught by certified educators, peer counselors, and health professionals; and promotes informed decisionmaking by childbearing women. .
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Additional focus area for the Office on Women’s Health
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