Maternal Health refers to a pregnant woman’s health and wellbeing before, during, and after pregnancy and encompasses aspects of physical, mental, emotional, and social health. Maternal health also includes the absence of maternal morbidity (health conditions that complicate pregnancy and childbirth or that have a negative impact on a person’s health and wellbeing), severe maternal morbidity (outcomes of labor and birth that result in significant negative short- or long-term consequences to a woman's health), and maternal mortality (the death of a woman directly related to complications of pregnancy, birth, or within 12 months of giving birth). The United States has the worst maternal mortality rate out of any high-income country. Maternal mortality rates in the United States have seen significant annual increases across all racial groups since 2018, when 658 women died at a rate of 17.4 deaths (per 100k live births). In 2021, 1,205 women died at a rate of 32.9 (per 100k live births).