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Women who identify as American Indian or Alaska Native (AIAN) form 2.2% of the population of women in the U.S., [10] and around 13% of them gave birth in maternity care deserts. [11] [2] They are more likely to experience negative outcomes including pre-term delivery, infant mortality, maternal morbidity, and maternal mortality. [12] [1]
CDC: "Maternal deaths include deaths of women while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and the site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management, but not from accidental or incidental causes." [1] [2] Maternal mortality refers to the death of a ...
In the United States the maternal mortality ratio rose during the years 2002-2015. [3] Although improvements in health care facilitated a dramatic decline in maternal mortality worldwide during the 20th century, women still die from complications of pregnancy, though there are significant differences in the top causes per region and income ...
Maternal mortality ratio per 100,000 live births. [1] From Our World in Data (using World Health Organization definition): "The maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is defined as the number of maternal deaths during a given time period per 100,000 live births during the same time period. It depicts the risk of maternal death relative to the number of ...
Everything contributes to America's maternal health crisis: geography, social factors, racial inequality, internalized racism. America leads wealthy countries in maternal deaths. Our local data ...
According to "Incidence of severe maternal morbidity by race and payer status at an academic medical system," by doing a similar study, it was established that black women with Medicaid have the highest rates of mortality, and white women with private insurance have the lowest rates of mortality proving the insurance that the pregnant mother ...
Maternal mortality is an urgent and pervasive problem robbing the world’s children of their mothers. Melinda French Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , says this doesn’t ...
California has the lowest maternal mortality in the nation — 10.5 per 100,000 live births, less than half the national rate. But that wasn’t the case before it created a “maternal quality ...