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    Towards a better tomorrow: addressing intersectional gender power relations to eradicate inequities in maternal health
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2024) George, Asha S; Bohren, Meghan A.; Iyer, Aditi
    Background : Improving access to and use of quality maternity care services as a means to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality are critical goals for maternal health. However, inequalities in access, use, and health outcomes remain persistent and profound. Exploring and responding to inequalities in coverage and use of services are important, but do not reflect the broader human rights and factors that influence women and birthing peoples’ ability to obtain dignified, quality maternity care. A more comprehensive and holistic approach to maternal health ensures terms to reflect all populations with the reproductive capacity for pregnancy and birth (e.g., including cisgender women, and people who are transgender, non-binary, gender-fluid, intersex, and gender nonconforming). Where we use “women” only, it is to reflect the term used in existing data sources, as these data sources typically come from maternal health studies conducted with cisgender women