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Why are Black maternal mortality rates so high? - Mayo …

(1 days ago) WEBMaternal mortality rates: Black vs. white in the U.S. Based on most recent estimates, non-Hispanic Black women are 2.6 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women. For Black women 25 and older, pregnancy-related mortality is about four times higher than it is for white women of similar ages, according …

https://mcpress.mayoclinic.org/pregnancy/black-maternal-mortality-rate/

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Solving the Black Maternal Health Crisis - Johns Hopkins

(4 days ago) WEBDire statistics about maternal health outcomes for Black women in America have become front-page news in recent years, in part because of the high-profile deaths of new mothers like CDC scientist Shalon Irving, MPH ’09, as well as the deep racial health inequities laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/solving-the-black-maternal-health-crisis

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Fact Sheet: Black Women's Maternal Health National …

(9 days ago) WEBTransform the Delivery of Black Maternal Care. Congress must pass the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act (S. 1606 and H. R. 3305), which addresses every driver of maternal mortality, morbidity, and disparity in the country by making investments in social drivers of health that influence maternal health outcomes. Destigmatize and Treat Black

https://nationalpartnership.org/report/black-womens-maternal-health-fact-sheet/

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What drives Black maternal health inequities in the U.S.

(4 days ago) WEBWhat drives Black maternal health inequities in the U.S. Statistics on Black maternal health in the United States underscore serious gaps in care. Black women are three to four times more likely to die from complications surrounding pregnancy and childbirth than white women. Death rates for infants born to Black Americans with …

https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/population-care/what-drives-black-maternal-health-inequities-us

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NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS Health …

(1 days ago) WEBRates increased with maternal age. Rates in 2020 were 13.8 deaths per 100,000 live births for women under age 25, 22.8 for those aged 25–39, and 107.9 for those aged 40 and over (Figure 2 and Table). The rate for women aged 40 and over was 7.8 times higher than the rate for women under age 25. Differences in the rates between age groups were

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2020/E-stat-Maternal-Mortality-Rates-2022.pdf

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‘A critical emergency’: America’s Black maternal mortality crisis

(7 days ago) WEBMaternal deaths in the US rose 40% from 861 in 2020 to 1,205 in 2021, a rate of 32.9 deaths per 100,000 live births. For Black women, these maternal mortality rates were significantly higher, at

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/23/america-black-maternal-mortality-crisis

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Racism in health: the roots of the US Black maternal …

(Just Now) WEBRacism in health: the roots of the US Black maternal mortality crisis. Reproductive health-care is fraught with racism. In this podcast, we explore how. A perfect storm of factors has led to huge

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02540-6

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Visualizing the stark maternal health inequities in the …

(6 days ago) WEBThe National Institute for Health Statistics published an analysis of maternal deaths in 2018 and 2019 and found that the maternal mortality rate jumped significantly in 2019, with 754 women dying

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/25/us/visualizing-us-black-maternal-healthcare-inequities/index.html

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Raising The Stakes To Advance Equity In Black Maternal Health

(Just Now) WEBIn the ten-year preventive health initiative known as Healthy People 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services aimed to reduce the rate from 12.7 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2022.00036

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Racial Disparities in Maternal Health U.S. Commission on Civil …

(9 days ago) WEBSeptember 15, 2021. This report examines the federal role in addressing racial disparities in maternal health, including negative pregnancy-related health outcomes and pregnancy-related deaths of women in the United States. As attention of these disparities increases, so does the focus on disparities such as, Black women in the U.S. are three

https://www.usccr.gov/reports/2021/racial-disparities-maternal-health

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Black Maternal Health Week 2023: How the US is failing Black …

(3 days ago) WEBBlack maternal health statistics. The most recent CDC report shows in 2021, Black women’s rates rose from 55 to almost 70 deaths per 100,000 live births. While Black women gave birth less in

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/04/11/black-maternal-health-week-explained/11635675002/

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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Maternal Mortality in the United

(7 days ago) WEBObjectives. To better understand racial and ethnic disparities in US maternal mortality. Methods. We analyzed 2016–2017 vital statistics mortality data with cause-of-death literals (actual words written on the death certificate) added. We created a subset of confirmed maternal deaths that had pregnancy mentions in the cause-of …

https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306375

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Listen to the Whispers before They Become Screams: Addressing …

(3 days ago) WEB1. Introduction. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that 50,000 women in the United States (U.S.) suffer from pregnancy complications annually, but that Black women are at least three times more likely to die due to a pregnancy-related cause when compared to White women [1,2].The estimated maternal …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9914526/

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The Black Maternal Mortality Crisis and Why It Remains an Issue

(5 days ago) WEBThe U.S. has the worst maternal mortality rate of high-income countries globally, and the numbers have only grown. According to a new study published in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/05/1186019422/the-black-maternal-mortality-crisis-and-why-it-remains-an-issue

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GAO-23-105871, MATERNAL HEALTH: Outcomes Worsened …

(4 days ago) WEBMATERNAL HEALTH Outcomes Worsened and Disparities Persisted During the Pandemic . October 2022 • The maternal death rate for Black or African-American (not Hispanic or Latina) women was 44.0 per 100,000 live births in 2019, then increased to CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics’ (NCHS) National Vital

https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-23-105871.pdf

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Health Equity Among Black Women in the United States

(3 days ago) WEBBlack women currently make up ∼7.0% of the U.S. population and 13.6% of all U.S. women. 10 Although, on average, Black women are younger (36.1 years) than U.S. women overall (39.6 years) ( Table 1 ), 10 they have a higher prevalence of many health conditions, including heart disease, stroke, cancers, diabetes, maternal morbidities, …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8020496/

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FACTSHEET: BLACK MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH

(8 days ago) WEB1. Educate and train the larger field of maternal health practitioners to operationalize health equity 2. Amplify the historical contribution of Black scholars in mental health and invest in Black leadership to expand the maternal mental health workforce 3. Invest in Black women-led community-based organizations and social safety net services 4.

https://blackmamasmatter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Factsheet-Black-Maternal-Mental-Health.pdf

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Trends in State-Level Maternal Mortality by Racial and Ethnic …

(7 days ago) WEBMMRs by State and Racial and Ethnic Group in 2019. There were 1210 maternal deaths estimated in 2019, an increase from 505 maternal deaths estimated in 1999. Estimated deaths by racial and ethnic group and Census region are shown in the Table. Figure 1 maps maternal mortality by state in 2019 for each racial and ethnic …

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2806661

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Black Women's Maternal Health - National Partnership for Women …

(8 days ago) WEBAnd while Black women have among the highest labor-force participation rate of all women (62.0 percent in 2022, compared to 58.1 percent for women overall), Black women experience higher rates of unemployment (5.6 percent in 2022, compared to 3.3 percent for women overall). A National Partnership for Women & Families analysis reveals that

https://nationalpartnership.org/report/black-womens-maternal-health/

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Childbirth Is Deadlier for Black Families Even When They’re Rich

(3 days ago) WEBAn analysis of two million births in California, the first research of its size to include both race and income, shows the best medical care for mothers and babies is not equally accessible to

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/12/upshot/child-maternal-mortality-rich-poor.html

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The Maternal Mortality Rate Dipped For Black Women. The …

(8 days ago) WEBThe post The Maternal Mortality Rate Dipped For Black Women. The Reason Is Complicated. appeared first on Capital B News. 817 women died due to maternal health causes in 2022, compared with

https://www.yahoo.com/news/maternal-mortality-rate-dipped-black-153000296.html

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Mother's Day should be joyous. Some Black moms don't live to see it

(3 days ago) WEBThe latest rates, released May 2 by the National Center for Health Statistics vital statistics system, show a drop in maternal death rates overall – but the gap between Black and white maternal

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2024/05/08/moms-hospitals-address-black-maternal-health-infant-mortality/73180674007/

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Data source and methods - Centers for Disease Control and …

(4 days ago) WEBMaternal Mortality Rates in the United States, 2022. by Donna L. Hoyert, Ph.D. This report presents maternal mortality rates for 2022 based on data from the National Vital Statistics System. A maternal death is defined by the World Health Organization as “the death

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2022/maternal-mortality-rates-2022.pdf

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Maternal death rate is improving. So why do disparities persist?

(Just Now) WEBFor Black mothers, the maternal mortality rate was 49.5 deaths per 100,000 births compared with 19 deaths per 100,000 for white women, 16.9 for Hispanic women and 13.2 for Asian women.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2024/05/02/maternal-deaths-improve-disparities-persist/73471846007/

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Maternal mortality rates improve in latest CDC report, following a

(7 days ago) WEBThere continue to be enormous racial disparities in the U.S. maternal mortality rate as well – the rate for Black women was 49.5 deaths per 100,000 births in 2022, compared to a rate of 19

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/05/02/1248563521/maternal-mortality-rates-2022-cdc

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DISPARITIES IN DELAWARE ADDRESSING BLACK MATERNAL …

(1 days ago) WEBAccording to the Delaware Health Statistics Center, the leading causes of death for. Delaware Black womencinclude cancer (22.5%), heart disease (17.5%), and diabetes Addressing Black maternal health disparities is not only a matter of equity but also. a moral and public health imperative. By prioritizing the needs of Black mothers

https://dhr.delaware.gov/women/documents/black-maternal-health-2024.pdf

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Delaware women fight to address Black maternal health disparities

(8 days ago) WEBBlack mothers are three times more likely to die than their white counterparts during or after childbirth. In 2021, the maternal mortality rate for non-Hispanic Black women was 69.9 deaths per

https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2024/05/10/delaware-women-address-black-maternal-health-disparities/73314192007/

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