Black mothers died at highest rates in US
Maternal deaths across the United States more than doubled over the course of two decades, and the tragedy unfolded unequally.
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Maternal deaths across the United States more than doubled over the course of two decades, and the tragedy unfolded unequally.
U.S. maternal deaths more than doubled over two decades: JAMA-
Maternal deaths across the U.S. more than doubled over the course of two decades, and the tragedy unfolded unequally.
A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows maternal deaths across the U.S. more than doubled in two decades in unequal proportions. Black mothers died at the nation's highest rates. American Indian and Native Alaskan mothers saw the biggest increases in deaths. And there was high maternal mortality in the Midwest, some northern Mountain states and the Southeast. The new study is a state-by-state analysis of maternal deaths from 1999 to 2019 across five racial ethnic groups.