Sentences with phrase «maternal death rates»

In countries where the average years of schooling is rising, maternal death rates are falling, too.

A new report finds that although maternal death rates across the globe...

Moreover, Hispanic and Black women continue to have much higher maternal death rates — perhaps four times as high or higher.

So let's get back to maternal death rates in Australia.

This is particularly concerning when our country ranks third in gross national income, but our maternal death rates are consistent with Hungary and Iran, and behind Croatia and Kuwait, quite farther behind Iceland, Singapore, and Estonia.

There are only about 125,000 babies born each year in Belgium, according to Wikipedia, and maternal death rates in the first world are measured in deaths per hundred thousand.

What do you have to say about maternal death rates in the US (ranked 50th globally), which are rising and almost exclusively under the control of obstetricians?

The US still has one of the highest maternal death rates in the WORLD.

And the maternal death rate is 16 per 100,000 pregnancies.

Still, all first - world countries have a maternal death rate somewhere on the order of one in 10,000 births, so you can use that as a general number.

That's a maternal death rate at home birth more than 20 TIMES HIGHER than the maternal death rate in the hospital.

If all women in the US had access to high quality health care, the maternal death rate in the US would probably be 2/3 or half of what it is today.

Thus, the US maternal death rate dropped from 1000 in 100,000 to 10 in 100,000 deliveries in less than 90 years.

It's just stunning that in a world as rich as this one, there are still countries with 100 times the maternal death rate of Western countries.

The maternal death rate in the U.S. in 2015 was 14 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.

How do you think we discovered that there concerns about maternal death rate?

Wow, substantially worse than average for neonatal death rates, and extremely bad for maternal death rate.

After this change, the official maternal death rate DID go up.

Human reproduction is perfectly compatible with a natural neonatal death rate of approximately 7 % and a natural maternal death rate of approximately 1 %.

Why is the U.S. maternal death rate higher than most other developed countries?

I made a quick search for «maternal death rate increase» Everything I found points to the same thing: Maternal death rate increased in the USA because of the increasing rates of obesity, diabetes and hypertension and other kind of risk factors (Which raises the risk of pregnancy).

Gaskin wrote, «When I first became curious about the maternal death rate in the UNITED STATES, I wondered why it was so difficult to unearth in the medical library.

I find this shocking, especially since we know that the maternal death rate has been rising in recent years — something that isn't happening in other countries» [9] Currently, according to the World Health Organization and several United Nations agencies, the United States ranks behind no fewer than forty other nations in preventing maternal deaths (based upon an official but unreliable number).

PCC's efforts are just one example of efforts to attain a global goal set 15 years ago, when world leaders committed themselves to decreasing the maternal death rate by 75 percent from 1990 to 2015.

While Australia's overall low maternal death rate has fallen, the mortality rate among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women is still unacceptably high.

This represents a maternal death rate of 8.4 per 100,000 women, one of the lowest maternal death rates in the world.

Not exact matches

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.

Not only would improved access to contraception impact the abortion rate in the U.S., it would dramatically reduce maternal and infant deaths around the world.

Whilst we do not have rigorous evaluation evidence of the effectiveness of Ecole des Maris, testimony from the men involved, and from pregnant women and new mothers, indicates that the scheme has transformed attitudes towards healthcare, as well as substantially increasing the rates of attended labour in a country where maternal and child death rates at birth remain high.

It happens so rarely that the rate of death from AFE (1/1, 000,000) and cord prolapse (1/100, 000) at homebirth is a miniscule fraction of the maternal mortality (1/5, 000) and perinatal mortality (1.7 / 1000) from elective cesarean surgery in hospital (34).

My country has over the last five years seen c - section rate rise steadily to over 30 %, and maternal mortality rate drop significantly from 21 to 14 deaths per 100 000 births.

However in the US the figure is 21 maternal deaths per 100,000 births — more than 3 times the rate in the Netherlands.

I'm not sure what the home birth rate is in the Netherlands but the Maternal Mortality rate for the Netherlands is 6 maternal deaths per 100,000Maternal Mortality rate for the Netherlands is 6 maternal deaths per 100,000maternal deaths per 100,000 births.

Therefore, as far as I can determine, there were 3 maternal deaths attributable to pregnancy in the entire study, 2 in the homebirth group and one in the hospital group, for a death rate of 2/100, 000 in each group.

The expectation is that if labour doesn't progress at a certain rate that there are risks (infection, maternal exhaustion, fetal death) associated with further waiting; that the longer labour stalls the less likely it is to start progressing normally (if the baby is too stuck to move after two hours of labour, it's probably too stuck to move after two days of labour) and there are no benefits to a long labour.

Do you know how many times that death toll is greater than the current maternal mortality rates in the developed world?

Simply put, the death rate was not zero and until the difference (if any) between maternal deaths at home and in the hospital is determined, we can not draw any conclusions about the safety of homebirth for Dutch mothers.

In a country where we spend the most on maternity care, how is it that we have the worst maternal and infant death rates of the industrialized nations?

«The Maternal Mortality Rate for Estonia is 2 deaths per 100,000 births — that seems like the safest place to give birth»

Cosleeping and Biological Imperatives: Why Human Babies Do Not and Should Not Sleep Alone «In Japan where co-sleeping and breastfeeding (in the absence of maternal smoking) is the cultural norm, rates of the sudden infant death syndrome are the lowest in the world.

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.

There is no comprehensive maternal mortality rate in the U.S. due to varying state regs on reporting deaths etc..

Severe maternal morbidity is an appropriate measure of safely ONLY when death rate is zero or nearly zero.

I checked the maternal mortality rates for the Netherlands and got 6 deaths / 100000 live births.

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!»

The US has approx 10 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births — which is itself too high — but there are countries where the rate is over 1000 per 100,000 live births.

The c - section rate in the United States is above 30 % and the rate of maternal death is among the highest in the developed world.

The objective of the Maternal Newborn Child Initiative is to give momentum to the implementation of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) 4 and 5 aimed at reducing the outrageous global rates of maternal and child deaths, malnutrition and Maternal Newborn Child Initiative is to give momentum to the implementation of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) 4 and 5 aimed at reducing the outrageous global rates of maternal and child deaths, malnutrition and maternal and child deaths, malnutrition and illness.

We observed higher rates of perinatal deaths, depressed 5 - minute Apgar scores, neonatal seizures, and maternal blood transfusions among planned out - of - hospital births; these persisted after multivariable and propensity - score adjustment.

Planned out - of - hospital birth was associated with a higher rate of perinatal death than was planned in - hospital birth (3.9 vs. 1.8 deaths per 1000 deliveries, P = 0.003; odds ratio after adjustment for maternal characteristics and medical conditions, 2.43; 95 % confidence interval [CI], 1.37 to 4.30; adjusted risk difference, 1.52 deaths per 1000 births; 95 % CI, 0.51 to 2.54).