raceglobal healthAfricareligionThe high risk of maternal death in Africa has cast a shadow over representations and experiences of pregnancy and childbirth. In the 1980s, amid new awareness of disparities in maternal mortality rates between high and low-income countries, tragic anecdotes of women ...
The perinatal death rates by race and ethnicity of the woman were approximately 5 for children of non-Hispanic White women 9 for children of non-Hispanic Black women 5 for children of Hispanic women The causes of perinatal death include causes ofstillbirthand neonatal death. Causes...
2023 Cardiovascular Health in the Postpartum Period JAMA JAMA Insights December 5, 2023 This article in the Women’s Health series discusses recent increases in US maternal death rates, disparities in rates by race and ethnicity, poor cardiovascular health (CVH) as one of the multifactorial causes...
" said co-first author Allison Bryant, MD, MPH, senior medical director for health equity at Mass General Brigham. "Our study sheds light on the wide disparities withinmaternal mortality rates—the specter of maternal death differentially
Rates by race and ethnicity of the mother were 4.7 for children of non-Hispanic White women 9.5 for children of non-Hispanic Black women 4.9 for children of Hispanic women The causes of perinatal death include causes ofstillbirthand neonatal death. Causes of stillbirth ...
ESMiE confidential enquiry: Broader view besides focus on errors by birth-attendants Experiences with maternal and perinatal death reviews in the UK—the MBRRACE-UK programme. BJOG 2014;121:41–6. 4 Draper ES, Kurinczuk JJ, Kenyon S (Eds). on behalf of MBRRACE-UK. MBRRACE-UK 2017 Perinat...
Deaths were stratified by month, and year of death was stratified into before (2018, 2019, and January-March [quarter 1] 2020) or during (April-December [quarters 2-4] 2020) the pandemic. Maternal mortality rates and percentages with a secondary COVID-19 code were compared by timing, rac...
Maternal death is defined as “the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management, but not from accidental or incidental causes”...
Kira Johnson was 39 years old. And her death isn't just a personal tragedy; she's part of a disturbing national trend. Dr. Mary-Ann Etiebet said, "The United States is the only industrialized country where the rates of maternal deaths have increased, not decreased. And so, young women...
The US Department of Health and Human Services has labeled severe maternal morbidity a public health priority. Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show anincrease in maternal mortality ratesand worsening disparities by race and ethnicity....