With an estimated 26.4 deaths for every 100,000 live births in 2015, America has the highest maternal mortality rate of all industrialized countries—by several times over. In Canada, the rate is 7.3; in Western Europe, the average is 7.2, with many countries including Italy, Norway, Sweden, and Austria showing rates around 4. More women die of childbirth-related causes in the US than they do in Iran (20.8), Lebanon (15.3), Turkey (15.8), Puerto Rico (15.1), China (17.7), and many more.
America didn’t always fare so poorly in maternal health. Like most other developing countries, in the decades following the end of World War II, maternal mortality rates dropped across the US—until the late 1980s, when the trend began to reverse.
Defunding Planned Parenthood will fix this.
There's smart via acquired knowledge and stupid via ignorance . But no one can teach common sense.
Ironic, as you are a dumbass with no sense or knowledge.
And you have no logic.
Until the early 1990s, death certificates did not note if a woman was pregnant or had recently given birth when she died. It took until 2017 for all US states to add that check box to their death certificates.
Calculating the number of near-deaths and severe illnesses related to pregnancy is still guesswork. There is no standard or official method of tracking, and cases are not routinely documented. In other words, data collection about maternal health and mortality is a complete mess. Even gathering reliable data for this story was difficult. Quartz was forced to turn to state data where there was a lack of national data, and to supplement gaps of any data with anecdotal evidence.
It’s estimated that the spotty reporting that resulted missed up to half of all pregnancy-related deaths
She walked towards the wheelchair that was going to take her to the nursery, and suddenly didn’t feel well. “I feel lightheaded,” she complained. Moments later, at age 30, Liz was dead.
The cause was a pulmonary embolism—a blood clot that travelled from her leg to her lungs, and killed her instantaneously.
Though she had a family history of blood clots, suggesting a genetic predisposition, and her risk was increased by the prolonged bed rest and the subsequent c-section surgery, to Matt’s knowledge Liz wasn’t given anticoagulant medications, or advised to exercise to help stimulate her blood flow.
If they weren't giving her anticoags after surgery and bed rest then that death should totally be part of those stats.If that death was considered the result of her pregnancy then I would argue that their stats are pure crap.
-KeithP
Ummm. All our death certs will say if the person was pregnant. If the death was unexpected there would also be an autopsy. Not sure what you are trying to say. That because the US has a fragmented health service that finds it hard to report on these things other countries with totally different systems must be worse?
notice that massive jump in 2000? I wonder what caused it? Oh, the article actually tells us
so most of that jump likely came not from an actual difference in outcomes but from better reporting
and it gets better
so in other words, they flat out made up numbers for the US and took the government's word for other countries and then they're STUNNED, STUNNED I tell you that the US looks worse than other countries
from the related article:
put the same effort into 'correcting' the other country's stats and then we'll see how it looks
Are we better at keeping women alive and pregnant until childbirth even if they're riskier?
Random crappy ass liberal website puts up fake data to make the US look bad, news at 11
Typical. Let's go back for a second and take a look at a couple things. For instance, most European countries
Not sure what you are trying to say. That because the US has a fragmented health service that finds it hard to report on these things other countries with totally different systems must be worse?
stop right there, it wasn't even 'most European countries', it was stuff like Iran
also look at the huge jump in the US stats. There is no reason to think that reflects an actual change in the death rate
in other words it has no credibility
It's not what I think, it's what the numbers reported in the OP say. I'm just asking if you think those numbers are wrong and what evidence you have for that.it's not that i think the other countries must be worse, it's that you think EVERY SINGLE OTHER COUNTRY must be dramatically better
So do you think the US is over reporting or that euro countries are under reporting?
It's not what I think, it's what the numbers reported in the OP say. I'm just asking if you think those numbers are wrong and what evidence you have for that.
Eh? Which country are they flat out making up the data for?i think when you hand massage the data and flat-out make up the numbers for one country, it's not reasonable to compare those stats to other countries that haven't undergone the same 'scrutiny'
Well it did that. You dont agree with it so show where its wrong then.sorry, the burden of proof is on the article, it's the one making the claims