Sentences with phrase «worst maternal mortality»

Nigeria, he said has the fourth worst maternal mortality rate in the world, only ahead of Sierra Leone, Central African Republic and Chad.

The U.S. has one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the developed world.

Not exact matches

In fact, when birth first moved into the hospitals, the maternal mortality rate ROSE until the US was the worst in the world for which statistics were know.

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.

Famine, poverty, disease, no jobs, no edeucation, bad water, too many people, infant mortality, maternal mortality, AIDS, and at least a few morde things.

The bottom line, Theiler said, is that the flu is a «very bad thing for maternal mortality that's easy for us to prevent.»

Which is really too bad because we have an urgent problem in America: our maternal mortality rate is among THE HIGHEST in the industrialized world (depending on the index you look at), our infant mortality rates are unacceptable, the inequalities in the way women of color and poor women are treated is literally a human right crisis, our new moms suffer from postpartum depression mores than so many other countries, and in many ways we have taken the joy and awe out of childbirth and infancy.

To make matters worse, the maternal mortality rate is actually rising in the U.S. while dropping in the rest of the world.