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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]
Both Aina and Gay point to the CDC's statistics on Black maternal mortality in the United States that say white women die from pregnancy-related causes at a quarter of the rate Black women do. [5] The BMMA has been successful in pushing for legislation to assist African-American women in childbirth, including the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act ...
Tennessee ranks third-worst in the nation for maternal health, and Black women, ... The state's maternal mortality rate stands at 41.7 per 100,000 births, significantly higher than the national ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...