Childbirth deadlier for Americans

Childbirth deadlier for Americans, especially Black women, study finds

While the U.S. maternal death rate is 22 for every 100000 live births, 10 countries in the report had a death rate of fewer than 10 per ...

U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis Comparison | Commonwealth Fund

The US maternal mortality rate continues to far exceed those of other high-income nations, despite a decline since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.

News: Childbirth deadlier for Americans,... (The Washington Post)

(The Washington Post) Childbirth deadlier for Americans, especially Black women, study finds. Associated research findings from the National Library of ...

Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States, 2021 - CDC

The maternal mortality rate for 2021 was 32.9 deaths per 100,000 live births, compared with a rate of 23.8 in 2020 and 20.1 in 2019 (Table). In ...

Childbirth deadlier in U.S. than other countries, and more in this ...

June 7, 2024 | Health News Roundup: Childbirth is deadlier in the United States than in any other high-income nation; Black and Latino ...

Childbirth Is Deadlier for Black Families Even When They're Rich ...

In the United States, the richest mothers and their newborns are the most likely to survive the year after childbirth — except when the ...

US has the highest rate of maternal deaths among high-income ...

US has the highest rate of maternal deaths among high-income nations. Norway has zero ... The United ...

Maternal Mortality Is on the Rise: 8 Things To Know - Yale Medicine

Maternal mortality (or death) is the term for when a mother dies from a pregnancy-related health issue or an existing condition exacerbated by ...

How dangerous is it really to have a baby in America? - Vox

Using a more conservative methodology, the researchers calculated a maternal mortality rate of 10.4 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2018-2021, ...

How bad is maternal mortality in the U.S.? A new study says ... - NPR

The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics' most recent report put the U.S. maternal mortality rate at a whopping 32.9 deaths per 100,000 ...

Giving birth in America continues to get deadlier - Axios

Why it matters: Access to care is getting worse even as America's maternal mortality rate is more than double that of some other high-income ...

Why does the US have such a high maternal mortality rate?

Data indicates that women's health is especially neglected in the postpartum period. Sixty-five percent of maternal deaths occur postpartum, ...

U.S. maternal mortality rate far exceeds other high-income nations ...

While the U.S. has 22 maternal deaths for every 100000 live births, Norway has zero, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund.

Why Maternal Mortality Rates Are Getting Worse across the U.S.

Annual reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have long indicated a downward trend in health outcomes for pregnant people ...

Maternal mortality - World Health Organization (WHO)

About 287 000 women died during and following pregnancy and childbirth in 2020. Almost 95% of all maternal deaths occurred in low and lower middle-income ...

U.S. maternal deaths more than doubled over 20 years. Here's who ...

Among wealthy nations, the U.S. has the highest rate of maternal mortality, which is defined as a death during pregnancy or up to a year ...

Maternal mortality in the United States: are the high and rising rates ...

Under the alternative formulation, the maternal mortality rate was 10.2 in 1999–2002 and 10.4 per 100,000 live births in 2018–2021; deaths from direct ...

The rise in reported maternal mortality rates in the US is largely due ...

Maternal mortality rates appear to have risen in the last 20 years in the US. But this reflects a change in measurement rather than an ...

Maternal Mortality in the United States: Updates on Trends, Causes ...

Significant racial/ethnic inequities exist in pregnancy care with non-Hispanic black women incurring 3 to 4 times higher rates of pregnancy-related death than ...

The Maternal-Mortality Crisis That Didn't Happen - The Atlantic

The old definition of maternal mortality focused on deaths during childbirth ... Insurers are refusing to cover Americans whose DNA reveals health ...