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At BWH, Midwife Edwina Zant, RN, CNM, reads a printout from an electronic fetal monitor, similar to those BWH donated to neighboring community health centers.
BWH is the state’s largest birthing hospital, and plays a unique role in developing and implementing innovative women’s health programs. Women’s health is viewed as more than a service of primary, obstetric, and chronic care for women’s reproductive and other problems. It is also seen as a way to ensure healthy families and healthy communities.
Women from low-income neighborhoods who are disadvantaged by their educational status, language, employment, economic status, immigrant status, race, or other personal characteristics face significant barriers to maintaining their health and that of their families. Promoting programs that improve the health of women across the lifespan through health, social support, educational opportunities, and employment reduces these barriers and helps women to care for themselves and their families.
The overall vision for BWH’s community health initiatives is driven by a desire to equalize health status and opportunity among underserved populations including women and their families.
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