Meaningful engagement and empowerment of women, households, communities, and providers is crucial for high quality enchancment initiatives. Progress in service coverage has stalled whereas the proportion of the population facing catastrophic out-of-pocket health spending will increase continuously. For comparisons throughout residence locations, massive fringe MSAs are used because the reference group since these counties have the bottom levels of poverty and usually have the best healthcare quality and access to healthcare. The bar chart in Figure 85 summarizes tendencies in disparities between massive fringe metro areas and other places for 13 measures for which information are available by geographic location.…