Moving Forward From COVID-19: Bridging Knowledge Gaps in Maternal Health With a New Conceptual Model.

ABSTRACT: As the world faces the health crisis of a global pandemic-with healthcare protocols in overhaul, and patients and care teams experiencing unprecedented levels of stress and unpredictability-we predict that current knowledge gaps in maternal health will inevitably have a lasting impact on the health of women giving birth now and in the near future. Since we are decades away from closing the knowledge gaps we need filled today, we recommend shifting thinking toward a comprehensive conceptual model that merges knowledge of stress physiology, neurobiology, and pregnancy physiology. The model we present here, the Maternal Reactive Scope Model, is an expansion of the Reactive Scope Model built upon the concept of Homeostasis and Allostasis. The model provides a framework to consider pathw

SUBMITTER: Dickens MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8593985 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature