U.S. maternal deaths keep rising. Here's who is most at risk (www.npr.org)

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The number of people dying in the U.S. from pregnancy-related causes has more than doubled in the last 20 years, according to a new study, published in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.

And while the study found mortality rates remain "unacceptably high among all racial and ethnic groups across the U.S.," the worst outcomes were among Black women, Native American and Alaska Native people.

The study looks at state-by-state data from 2009 to 2019. Co-author Dr. Allison Bryant, an obstetrician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, says maternal death rates in the U.S. just keep getting worse. (...)

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[-] makeitso@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This kind of information makes me simultaneously so happy that I have had all the children I will have...and terrified at the fact that three of my four children are girls.

The USA has been fully revealed at this point to be a shareholder value driven state. Human lives, human happiness, human understanding do not matter here...only the bottom line for shareholders.

The ways in which shareholder capitalism impact medical care are tragic and deeply systemic at this point. We need a complete shakeup from the culture up in medicine and science (and finance, and education, and and and....etc).

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