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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 ...
Black women are more likely to die from postpartum hemorrhage than women from other racial groups. [72] Disparities in Black maternal mortality persist across all levels of education. [75] American Indian and Native Alaskan women also have a disparate risk of death from pregnancy-related complications that is 2.3 times the risk of white women. [75]
Tennessee ranks third-worst in the nation for maternal health, and Black women, women of color and those from rural areas are likely to suffer most. Black women face alarming maternal mortality rates.
Her death is seen as preventable and is viewed in the context of high rates of maternal mortality in the United States, particularly among the African American population. [2] It is cited as an example in medical and scholarly publications to call for improved health outcomes in the black U.S. population.
Black women have the highest maternal mortality rate in the United States — 69.9 per 100,000 live births for 2021, almost three times the rate for white women.
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 ...
Burton and Brace say Black doulas can help minimize maternal mortality rates among women of color and the Lansing area needs more of them. Ingham County’s initiative will train up to 26 through ...
The Black Maternal Health Caucus was founded to 'improve black maternal health outcomes,' with the founders citing statistics that the United States has the worst maternal death rates in the developed world, at 18 death per 100,00 live births, and with a higher rate among black women, at 40 deaths per 100,000 live births. [4] [5]