U.S. maternal mortality rates more than doubled from 1999 to 2019, research finds
"The number of U.S. women who died within a year after pregnancy more than doubled between 1999 and 2019, with the highest deaths among Black women.” The number rose from 505 in 1999 to 1,210 in 2019, with the greatest increases in rates among American Indian and Alaska Native women."
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-maternal-mortality-more-than-doubled-since-1999-most-deaths-among-black-women-2023-07-03/
#Medicine #inequity #maternity #latestagecapitalism
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