These numbers come as the nationturns its attention to racial health disparities. Following the landmark 2019 report from the CDC outlining the glaring health disparities leading to a higher prevalence of maternal mortality among Black women, even after adjusting for social factors, ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Thursday that it will reorganize its Office of Health Equity (OHE) in a way that emphasizes serving racial minorities, foreigners and members of the LGBT community. OHE, under the CDC’s new organizational rules, “coordinates programs...
state lawmakers also have pushed maternal mortality initiatives, including in new york, where legislators allocated funding in the state's 2019-2020 budget to establish its own maternal mortality review board. last year, new york city announced a plan to reduce pregnancy-related deaths and comp...
the overall maternal mortality rate dropped from17 per 100,000 births to seven by 2013. Despite this improvement, the racial disparity of three times as many Black women dying around the time of childbirth persisted in California.
CDC HEALTH DISPARITIES AND INEQUALITIES REPORT Coronary heart disease and stroke are not only leading causes of death in the United States,but also account for the largest proportion of inequality in life expectancy between whites and blacks, despite the existence of low-cost,highly... TR Frieden...
Related article US maternal mortality rate declines, but disparities remain, new CDC data shows Infant mortality in the US has been generally trending down since at least 1995, when consistent tracking started, but rates are still much higher in the US than they are in many ...
Such a frame crosscuts current racial groups. Health disparities such as , , low-birth-weight (LBW) infants, infant mortality, , and are affected by the interactions of degree of , amount of exposure to ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation, and levels of serum vitamin D. Reframing the problem ...