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In the states of Pennsylvania, Missouri, and California, the journal article "Black-white disparities in maternal in-hospital mortality according to teaching and black-serving hospital status" discovered that between the years of 1995 to 2000, out of every 100,000 patients in a hospital, 11.5 black women died during pregnancy, and 4.8 white ...
Own work from Maternal deaths and mortality rates by state, 2018-2022 and 2018-2021 (previous map). Listed at Data Files and Resources. National Vital Statistics System (NVSS). National Center for Health Statistics. US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The overall maternal mortality rate in the state is nearly double the national average, at 26 per 100,000 live births. Angela Dennis is the Knox News race, justice and equity reporter. Email ...
Race plays a role in maternal mortality. In 2021, the maternal mortality rate for Black women was 69.9 deaths per 100,000 live births. [9] This is 2.6 times the rate for White women. [1] Approximately 1 in 6 Black infants were born in maternity care deserts and 1 in 4 Native American babies were born in maternity care deserts. [1]
Oklahoma overall has a maternal mortality rate of about 30 per 100,000 live births, significantly higher than the national average of about 23. But in Jackson’s quarter-century tenure, she said ...
A study published Monday, July 3, 2023, in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows maternal mortality rates in the U.S. doubled between 1999 and 2019, that Native American and ...
Geographic location has also been found to be a contributing factor to accessing maternal health care. Data has shown that rates of maternal mortality are higher in rural areas of the United States. From 2017-2019, the rate of maternal mortality in rural areas was 26.1 per 100,000 live births as compared to 21.8 in metropolitan areas. [30]
Black people make up about 38% of Mississippi's population, but a new study shows that Black women were four times more likely to die of causes directly related to pregnancy than white women in ...