The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’sreportWednesday on the 2023 deaths was drawn from death certificates. The CDC counts women who died while pregnant, during childbirth and up to 42 days after birth. Accidental deaths are excluded. ...
But there's to more to it than that, she and others added. The 2021 maternal mortality rate for Black women was nearly three times higher than it was for white women. And the maternal death rate for Hispanic American women that year rose 54% compared with 2020, also surpassing the death...
“woman” was applied to any individual assigned female at birth and includes those under the age of 18. The authors acknowledge the importance of healthcare to the gender-fluid, nonbinary, and transgender communities and that not all people who identify as women are assigned female at...
About 104.6 out of every 1,000 Hispanic women aged 15 to 19 gave birth in 1991. In comparison, the birth rate for Hispanic women in that age group was just 21.3 out of every 1,000 women in 2022. This statistic shows birth rates among teenagers and young adult women in the U....
The national preterm birth rate fell to 11.4 percent in 2013 – the lowest in 17 years—meeting the federal Healthy People 2020 goal seven years early. Despite this progress, the U.S. still received a "C" on the 7th annual March of Dimes Premature Birth
For the 12 months ended July 1, the population of the United States grew by 392,665, or just 0.1 percent, “the lowest rate since the nation’s founding.” “Population growth has been slowing for years because of lower birth rates and decreasing net international migration, all while morta...
In the US, life expectancy at birth is declining, and death rates increased for almost every age group in 2021 compared with 2020.1 These trends reflect mortality attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic, certainly, and also worsening mortality rates for the US population that began prior to 2020...
Tuesday, there were signs that some NIH activities were resuming, including meetings called study sections, where panels of outside experts review research proposals and rate them for future funding. The most highly rated proposals then go on to another round of review before they are funded. ...
which pulled from official birth and death data collected in all 50 states and in the District of Columbia, has been printed in part online and will be published in full in the March 2013 issue of Pediatrics. Explaining the report, the authors say it shows "the lowest rate ever reported ...
Women can still expect to live more than five years longer than men — the life expectancy at birth for females in 2023 was 81.1 years, compared with 75.8 years for males — but the gap has been closing. And death rates decreased for all racial and ethnic groups that were analyzed for 2...