Several articles on U.S. maternal mortality rates have popped up over the last month or so, most of them using an NPR report as their primary source. Working conjointly with ProPublica, NPR spent six months conducting an in-depth investigation to uncover why the...
Trends in U.S. Maternal Mortality: Who, What, When, Where, and Why
Henci’s latest guest post on Connecting the Dots looks at the recent analysis of trends in U.S. maternal mortality from 2000 to 2014 together with other related research and media responses that offer explanations for the upward trend.
NYC Report Reveals that Women of Color More Likely to Die of Pregnancy-Related Causes
Women's eNews summarizes a New York City Department of Health report on maternal mortality between 2006 and 2010 finding that women of color were more likely to die of pregnancy-related causes during pregnancy or within 1 year of delivery than white, non-Hispanic...
Admission in Active Labor Could Decrease Cesareans & Maternal Deaths in Low-Risk Women
Using the obstetric research to develop their underlying assumptions, investigators created a decision-analytic model to compare outcomes in a theoretical population of 3.2 million healthy, low-risk women with no prior cesareans, this being the number of such women...