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In the states of Pennsylvania, Missouri, and California, the journal article "Black-white disparities in maternal in-hospital mortality according to teaching and black-serving hospital status" discovered that between the years of 1995 to 2000, out of every 100,000 patients in a hospital, 11.5 black women died during pregnancy, and 4.8 white ...
A national study examined the death rates from pregnancy in white and black women. The study found that for five particular pregnancy problems, the death risk was 2.4 to 3.3 times higher among black women. Preeclampsia, placenta abruptio, placenta previa, and postpartum hemorrhage were among them (Howell, 2018).
Maternal death or maternal mortality is defined in slightly different ways by several different health organizations. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines maternal death as the death of a pregnant mother due to complications related to pregnancy, underlying conditions worsened by the pregnancy or management of these conditions.
Heather Wilson lost her daughter — and nearly her life — the first time she gave birth. The Virginia Beach resident developed a potentially fatal condition and her blood pressure skyrocketed ...
Nick Rowley, an attorney representing the Johnson family, said the federal agency had outlined "steps in the right direction," but amid "this epidemic of Black women dying in healthcare, dying in ...
Florida Department of Health data showed that in 2019 the maternal death rate in Palm Beach County was 40.7 per 100,000 live births, with Black women dying at a rate 11 times that of white women.
"the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes." Note that this wording includes abortion, miscarriage, stillbirth, and ectopic pregnancy
In the United States, approximately 17 mothers in every 100,000 pregnancies die, with three Black mothers dying for every white mother, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.