This global analysis of disparities in maternal mortality/morbidity will focus on middle- and high-income countries (based on World Bank definitions) with multiethnic populations. Many countries with similar histories of slavery and forced migration demonstrate disparities in health outcomes based on ...
RACIAL DISPARITIES IN MATERNAL MORTALITY New York University Law ReviewBRIDGES, KHIARA M.
Ethnic disparities in maternal mortality are consistently reported. This study aimed to investigate the contribution of known risk factors including age, socioeconomic status, and medical comorbidities to observed ethnic disparities in the United Kingdom (UK). A cohort of all women who died during or...
Background: The health and well-being of mothers are essential for a thriving and prosperous society, yet maternal mortality remains a pressing public health problem in the USA. We aimed to examine the US trends in maternal mortality from 1999 to 2020 based on age, race/ethnicity, and census...
Disparities in interventions for child and maternal mortality. Lancet. 2012 Mar 31; 379(9822):1178-80. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60474-7 PMID: 22464372Goldenberg RL, McClure EM. Disparities in interven- tions for child and maternal mortality. Lancet 2012; 379 (9822):1178-80....
The goal of this effort is to allow policymakers across the country to determine the most effective methods to reduce the overall maternal mortality rates and the racial disparities in maternal mortality. Those responsible for data collection as prescribed by the Preventing Maternal Death Act of 2018...
Researchers are increasingly studying maternal mortality in the context of maternal morbidity in order to identify risk and protective factors operating at each point along the morbidity-mortality continuum. This study examined factors associated with mortality in pregnant women with severe morbidity. In ...
This finding is somewhat natural, as pregnant people increase in risk as they age. However, the data did show worsening maternal mortality rates for the over-40 group. In 2019, the CDC observed a dip in maternal mortality among this population, but in 2020 the mortality rat...
health and health care of specific populations; education and the physician workforce; and law enforcement and criminal justice. Recommendations range from policy changes to addressing social drivers of health, such as poverty, improving access to care and eliminating disparities in maternal mortality. ...
After more than two decades of the Safe Motherhood Initiative and Millennium Development Goals aimed at reducing maternal mortality, women continue to die in childbirth at unacceptably high rates in Pakistan. While an extensive literature describes vario