Sentences with phrase «high maternal mortality»

«If I was forced to identify one factor above all others as the determinant of high maternal mortality in the USA,» Loudon wrote in Death in Childbirth, «I would unhesitatingly choose the standard of obstetric training in the medical schools.»

The article lost me when they claimed that interventions in hospitals are responsible for high maternal mortality rate in the US.

We've shared before the alarming statistics of high maternal mortality (mothers and birthing persons dying) in the United States.

It's infant mortality that the US suffers in, not perinatal / neonatal (eg; very shortly after birth)-- and surprise surprise, it's pretty much for the same reason we have a high maternal mortality — in the US, poor people can't / don't have access to skilled health care until it's an emergency, because then they can't refuse you.

Mothers who give birth at home are as concerned with the under - reported and grossly high maternal mortality rate in hospitals as the infant mortality rate.

«BRAC seeks to experiment on improving quality at local health facilities: Data show that obstetrical care at public facilities in Uganda is very weak, leading to high maternal mortality and risks to newborns.

In the District of Columbia, concerns about the high maternal mortality rate — in 2014, it stood at about 40.7 deaths per 100,000 births, according to the analysis by United Health Foundation, substantially exceeding the U.S. rate and those of neighboring Virginia and Maryland — have periodically sparked talk of a review committee, but not enough to push a measure through.

The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate out of all affluent countries.

Figures from the Reproductive Health in Crisis Consortium show that the 10 countries with the highest maternal mortality rates (MMRs) are all undergoing or have recently undergone conflict.

Until women and their families start expecting respect and look at themselves as the main player in childbirth we will continue to have higher maternal mortality rates than 33 other countries (according to WHO) and higher low birth weight rates than 23 other countries.

https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2013R1/Downloads/CommitteeMeetingDocument/8585 The Netherlands has one of the highest maternal mortality rate in Europe.

B / c they look at infant mortality rate... b / c they don't know the leading causes of death that lend to our higher maternal mortality rate... b / c of Ina May, Ricki Lake, Sarah Buckley, mothering dot com, childbirth connection... b / c of the Johnson and Davis BMJ article... b / c they are told to «look at the Netherlands!»

Yes, a big of the reason for our higher maternal mortality rate is general health of the population, which is associated with some other reasons: poverty and lack of access to care.

I find it ironic that mainstream medical professionals would spend so much time critiquing and vilifying home birth when the VAST MAJORITY OF BIRTHS IN AMERICA HAPPEN IN AMERICAN HOSPITALS and when AMERICA HAS AMONG THE HIGHEST MATERNAL MORTALITY RATES OF ANY COUNTRY IN THE INDUSTRIALIZED WORLD.

The Amnesty report said that in Sierra Leone, which has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world, less than half of deliveries are attended by a skilled birth attendant and less than one in five are carried out in health facilities.

Not exact matches

Abortion is the fifth - highest cause of maternal mortality.

Nationally, black women have a maternal mortality rate three to four times higher than white women, and the District suspects its gap is even wider.

The maternal mortality rate in the U.S. is higher than that in most similarly wealthy nations — and it's actually been on the rise over the past two decades.

For the past year, ProPublica and NPR have been examining why the U.S. has the highest rate of maternal mortality in the industrialized world.

As an industrialized nation, we have a shockingly high incidence of infant mortality and maternal death.

The maternal mortality in developing countries - 384 for 100 000 living births - remains 12 times higher than in the countries of the OECD (UNDP Report 1996)

Our solution, at Midwife International, is to train midwives who are equipped to work in resource - constrained regions where maternal and child mortality is high and the need for professional midwives is greatest.

There are 12 high quality studies since 1995 (1 - 12) from Canada, Switzerland, Sweden, Holland, US, UK, New Zealand and Israel, which all show planned attended homebirth to have either lower or similar rates of perinatal mortality and very significantly lower rates of maternal morbidity, such as cesareans, hemorrhage, and third and fourth degree tears compared to matched groups of low risk women who plan to deliver in hospital.

Perinatal mortality rates for hospital births of low risk women are similar to outcomes of planned homebirth in general, but the maternal morbidity at planned hospital births is much higher.

The US medical system does indeed have the highest infant and maternal mortality rate in the developed world, and is not sequestered to those of African descent.

One thing that indicates the skill of American obstetricians is the fact that — despite maternal and infant mortality rates that are high among developed countries — the American neonatal mortality rate is so good.

I live in Belgium where we have extensive medical care for mothers in comparison with other EU countries and yet in comparison with other EU countries, we have a higher rate of maternal mortality.

Bialik mentions high maternal - infant mortality rates and increasing social and psychiatric problems in children.

The goal of regionalized maternal care is for pregnant women at high risk to receive care in facilities that are prepared to provide the required level of specialized care, thereby reducing maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States.

Her current research project, again in Malawi, explores explanations for maternal death in a context in which mortality rates are very high while the uncertainties surrounding any given death are substantial.

Unfortunately, the US has a very high rate of infant and maternal mortality.

Maternal mortality, which reached an all time high of 15.1 per 100,000 dropped to 12.7 per hundred thousand in 2007.

The World Health Organization and Unicef estimated the average maternal mortality ratios for 1990 as 27 per 100 000 live births in the more developed countries compared with 480 per 100 000 live births in less developed countries, with ratios as high as 1000 per 100 000 live births for eastern and western Africa.4 The WHO has estimated that almost 15 % of all women develop complications serious enough to require rapid and skilled intervention if they are to survive without lifelong disabilities.5 This means that women need access not only to trained midwives but also to medical services if complications arise.

What is the reason for the high and rising rate of maternal mortality in California?

Is the increased maternal mortality caused by the high C - Section rate, or just associated with it and caused by the same factors, such as obesity, GD, high blood pressure, multiples, maternal age, and so on?

Common practices do not make common sense and contribute to poor outcomes - the US ranks near the bottom as compared to other modernized countries in terms of maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality, despite high rates of medical and surgical interventions.

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.

Some also argue that it's a higher risk for mom and baby, but in fact, maternal mortality rates are 3 - 4 times LOWER in moms who VBAC.

Simply saying «we have higher rates of interventions and higher rates of maternal mortality therefore X = Y» is incorrect.

«Despite the fact that cesarean section rates higher than 10 % are not associated with reductions in maternal and newborn mortality, many countries across the world — including the U.S., Brazil and even parts of India — are seeing rates of cesarean section rise to over 30 %,» Jerker writes.

Indeed, the average C - section rate for countries with low maternal and neonatal mortality is 22 %, although rates as high as 32 % or higher are consistent with low rates of maternal and neonatal mortality.

Since ERCSs have significantly higher rates of maternal morbidity and mortality, this essentially treats the mother and her health as unimportant.

This also exemplifies why we can't simply blame the relative high US maternal mortality rate on the cesarean rate, or the rate of obstetric interventions.

The U.S. has considered many factors, such as advanced maternal age, more reproductive technology, and higher rates of premature births for its high mortality rate, but the rate is simply much too high.

Papua New Guinea has one of the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world and yet, I mistakenly assumed that breastfeeding was so a «way of life» that my help wouldn't be needed.

In fact, if one considered just three factors (maternal education, maternal prenatal alcohol or tobacco, and marital status) one could predict to a high degree postneonatal mortality: children born to unmarried women with lower education and evidence of prenatal drug use had a postneonatal mortality of about 30 per 1000 live births (similar to Ivory Coast); children born to women with none of these risk factors had a postneonatal mortality of about 2 per 1000 live births (similar to Norway); that is, children in this latter category almost never die despite evidence from PRAMS surveys that they are as likely to co-sleep with their parents.

Maternal mortality is also higher with C - sections.

The review found that community mobilisation and antenatal and postnatal home visits decrease neonatal mortality (high - certainty evidence) and may reduce maternal mortality (low - certainty evidence).

It also has a high and rising rate of maternal mortality.

The U.S. spends twice as much per birth than any other country in the world, yet has the second - worst newborn mortality rate and one of the highest rates of maternal death during childbirth.