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Black women died during or soon after pregnancy at higher rates than any other racial group in every year from 1999 to 2019. American Indian and Alaska Native women had the greatest increase in risk during this period.
A March of Dimes report gave the US a grade of D+ for maternal and infant health care, highlighting that the national preterm birth rate hit 10.5% in 2021, a record 15-year high.
The last decade has seen no measurable change in global preterm birth rates in any region of the world.
Kenya’s experienced fast population growth and urbanisation - this has brought about some big challenges.
A recent report found that black women are four times more likely to die while pregnant or just after childbirth, compared with white women.
Many of the preventable pregnancy-related deaths documented by the CDC are directly attributable to failures and barriers in the maternal care system.
If maternal mortality is an important indicator of how a health system is performing, this is damning news for the NHS.
The factors associated with death in mother and baby included low education in the mother, lack of antenatal care, referral from another facility.
Treating a potentially deadly pregnancy complication gets caught up in the abortion debate. A nurse-midwife explains why it shouldn’t.
For every maternal death, there are about an additional 20 women who suffer serious injuries, infections and disabilities related to pregnancy.
There is growing evidence that when poor-quality oxytocin is used, it fails to prevent post-partum haemorrhage.
Black women are four times more likely to die when childbearing than white women.
High quality antenatal care can improve maternal health in West and Central Africa by identifying and addressing underlying problems that can cause pregnancy complications.
Even though the spouse escort policy carries good intentions, we found during our study that it constituted a barrier to care in numerous ways.
Recent revelations of the coerced sterilization of Indigenous women in Canada are part of a long, complex and disturbing history – in which feminism became a fight to keep one’s own children.
Tanzania would like more than 80%of births to be overseen by skilled health care providers
It’s not just women in impoverished countries dying in childbirth. The maternal death rate in both Canada and the U.S. has risen, particularly among Indigenous and African-American women.
Free maternal services introduced in Kenya in 2013 had the immediate impact of increasing access. But it exposed a divide in which the richest 20% of women were the biggest beneficiaries.
Many women in African countries who are medically required to have caesarean sections aren’t able to access them due to weak health systems and a lack of resources.
Top contributors
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Professor of Global Surgery, University of Cape Town
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Medical Doctor, Epidemiologist and Biostatistician, University of the Witwatersrand
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Public Health Researcher at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington
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Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology , Harvard University
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Chair: School of Medicine and Head of Department: Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Sheffield
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Executive Director, African Population and Health Research Center
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African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University
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Medical Anthropology PhD candidate, The University of Edinburgh
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Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University
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Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Thomas Jefferson University
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Professor of Maternal and Child Health, University of Stirling
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Research Scientist in Public Health, University of Washington
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Associate Professor of Medicine and Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Metrics Sciences, University of Washington
