Health Care Access Now: How trust and trusted data help reduce healthcare inequality

The numbers are alarming. In 2018, the World Health Organization, reported the United States had the sixth highest number of preterm births in the world.

In the United States today, 10 percent of children are born premature—three or more weeks before their due date. According to the 2019 March of Dimes Report Card, premature birth in the State of Ohio occurs at a rate of 10.3 percent. In Hamilton County, which includes Cincinnati, the percentage climbs almost one percentage point. And the statistics become more disturbing from there.