FOIA Report Exercise

Create FOIA Request (Freedom of Information Act) to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) requesting all document and records pertaining the Maternal Mortality Rate for Black Women. Let the agency know you will also want to recieve all in-depth records done by the MMRC (Maternal Mortality Review Committee) to ensure all maternal cases are coded correctly an efficient.

In this request be direct and firm in letting them know the seriousness and severity or the. Also include in the request that it is timed sensitive (within 10 to return).

Other source to include in FIOA Request to support your request.

- According to World J Gynecol Womens Health records , the national black maternal mortality rate, it is quadruple that of non-Hispanic white women.

- According The National Library of Medicine, Texas state maternal mortality review committee (MMRC) found that 70% of maternal deaths occurred in women insured by Medicaid at the time of delivery and that 80% of all maternal deaths were preventable.

- According to World J Gynecol Womens Health records, One must give weight to the perception that many black pregnant women believe that their lives are not valued to the degree of their white pregnant counterparts. Twenty-nine black women who underwent focus questionnaires describe differential treatment by staff based on their insurance status (public versus private) and describe a lower quality of prenatal care based on racism from providers

- According National Center for Health Statistics, due several errors , several measures have been implemented to improve the accuracy of maternal mortality estimates, including new coding procedures.