Black women and American Indian women have the highest maternal mortality rates in the United States. Few studies have considered non-obstetric causes of maternal death. What this Study adds? Non-obstetric causes of maternal mortality have become increasingly prevalent in the US within the past tw...
Conclusions: While maternal mortality rates in the USA have stabilized since 2013, our analysis reveals significant disparities by race, age, and region. Therefore, it is essential to prioritize efforts to improve maternal health outcomes across all population subgroups to achieve equitable maternal ...
but also race. "if you're a woman of color in this country, especially if you are black, your odds of dying in childbirth are three to four times higher on average in our country," Dr. Shah said.
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Harris' attention to health issues particularly important to Black women is helping to draw their support, said Kimberly Peeler-Allen, a co-founder of Higher Heights. In 2021, the vice president called for a more robust government response to the nation's high maternal mortality rates. ...
Black women faced higher maternal mortality rates than non-Hispanic White women. “First do no harm.” That is the basis of all US medicine, and yet for certain populations, it’s not always true. Case in point: Black maternal health disparities. Black, American Indian, and Alaska Na...
GIS plays a pivotal role in visualizing these disparities, enabling public health professionals to analyze patterns of maternal mortality by race and geographic location. Adding in infrastructure data like hospital availability and healthcare provider distr...
2 Regionally, the South had the highest maternal CVD mortality, with an AAMR of 12.14, compared with 5.41 in the West. These findings underscore a troubling trend in maternal health in the US, where overall maternal mortality rates already outpace those of other developed nations.1 CVD remains...
Additionally, rates of SMM were calculated based on patient sociodemographic factors such as age, race and ethnicity, insurance type, and social vulnerability index (SVI) [3], medical comorbidities, and delivery mode. Deaths during the childbirth encounter were identified by an “expired” discharge...
women and women of color are less likely to receive medication and [more likely to receive] less potent pain medication for the same issues as male counterparts," Thompson said. "They experience longer wait times -- so, unequal treatment, lower quality of care, higher maternal mortality ...