«Aboriginal people still have
far higher mortality rates than the average population and die at much younger ages.
Not exact matches
With a
mortality rate of almost 5x
higher than hospital birth, this is not that
far off the 6 - 8 times
higher we saw for the Oregon data collection, even though the Oregon group almost surely had significantly fewer criteria for risking mothers out (no criteria in some places, I'm sure) as well as lower qualifications for the midwives as CPMs and DEMs.
Our current maternity care system's disconnected and medical treatment of birth is what's causing the need for more medical and surgical intervention and emergency situations in the first place; it leads into a cascade of
further interventions and more serious problems like the
high rates of maternal and newborn morbidity and
mortality that plague the United States.
By
far the greatest influence on premature
mortality is poverty followed by geographical location:
mortality rates in urban areas are
higher than
mortality rates in rural ones.
Further analyses show that graft failure and
mortality rates remained
higher among minority groups compared to white children after accounting for differences in demographic, clinical, and socioeconomic factors.
The end result is that community cats are by
far the greatest source of kitten births and of cat admissions to animal shelters, even when the
higher mortality rate for community kittens is factored in.
On the Thailand / Myanmar border, infant and maternal
mortality rates are
far too
high — 22 times
higher than elsewhere.
As a consequence, late diagnosis of cancer is
far more common among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander than other Australians, with this leading to poor cancer outcomes, including
higher rates of
mortality.