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Adolescent mothers are between two and five times more likely to die than a female twenty years or older. Access to reproductive services and sex education could make a large impact, specifically on adolescents, who are generally uneducated in regards to carrying a healthy pregnancy.
And we need to speak this truth because today, the United States is 1 of only 13 countries in the world where the rate of maternal mortality is worse than it was 25 years ago. That risk is even higher for Black women, who are three to four times more likely than white women to die from pregnancy-related causes. These numbers are simply outrageous."
More than 2.6 million children and 100,000 mothers die every year as a result of under nutrition. Poor nutrition can weaken immune systems which can make both children and adults more likely to die of diarrhea or pneumonia. It can also impair the effectiveness of life saving medications.
The maternal health crisis is even more devastating for Black women, who are 2.5 times more likely to die from pregnancy complications compared to white women. However, pregnancy complications don ...
Mothers in the UK are three times more likely to die around the time of pregnancy compared to those in Norway and Denmark, a new study suggests. ... They found that the rates of death among ...
The study also points to gun deaths, saying that teenagers in the U.S. are 82 times more likely to die from a gun homicide than any of the other countries. Show comments Advertisement
Black women are more likely to have unplanned pregnancies as well–and are thus more likely to lack prior monitoring and treatment of pre-existing conditions before, during, and after a pregnancy. [56] A study conducted in 2009 also showed that black infant mortality rates were five times higher than white infant mortality rates.
COVID-19 took nearly 417,000 lives in 2021 — more than in 2020 — and for the second year was the third leading cause of death. ... and are more likely to die of heart disease and suicide. 1949 ...