A lack of evidence for disability-inclusive maternal health interventions and promising progress: an updated systematic review
Alka Dev, Sophia E. Allen, Sophia Sisson · 2025
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Not one proper study exists of programs built to help pregnant women with disabilities, finds a 2025 review by Alka Dev, Sophia Allen, and Sophia Sisson. Updating a 2014 review, the team screened more than twenty two thousand publications from 2012 onward and found zero that fit.
Drug safety studies for conditions tied to disability were common, but none asked how pregnancy itself disables or how care could bend to meet it. The authors do point to three recent pilots, from patient written resources to midwife training and a self advocacy tool. They read the pilots as a field at a turning point, and the empty shelf as the scandal.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Alka Dev, Sophia E. Allen, Sophia Sisson |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 16 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |