Reversing the gains: Maternal mortality increasing in the developed World: America! What is going on?
A startling new report from the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology has shown that the U.S. maternal mortality rate increased significantly between 2000 and 2014 — despite the rest of the world’s success in reducing the number of women dying from pregnancy complications. A developed world country increasing its maternal mortality rate?
And Texas, the second-largest state in America, has doubled maternal mortality rates in just a two-year period especially since there is no war, natural disaster, or severe economic upheaval. Texas is one of the most dangerous places in the developed world to be pregnant, but why? Photo courtesy of Pexels
The researchers have called for efforts to be redoubled to prevent maternal deaths and improve maternity care for the 4 million U.S. women giving birth each year.
In 2012, 148 women in Texas died from pregnancy complications, up significantly from 72 deaths two years before.
There is one possible reason for the Lone Star State’s staggering rates; its Republican-led state legislature.
The slashing of funding to Planned Parenthood and decimated its reproductive healthcare clinics in Texas in 2011, just before the rise in maternal mortality, has been suggested as the likely cause. Budgets were cut from $111.5 million to $37.9 million for family planning which is quite substantial. This likely meant less access or more difficult and delayed access to health care for more pregnant women since clinic were greatly reduced in number.
The lesson maybe be that before budget cuts repercussions need to be investigated there is now a serious problem with maternal mortality.
What does this example also teach developing world countries about budgets for family planning clinic? and the health strategy especially to make motherhood safe?
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A startling new report from the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology has shown that the U.S. maternal mortality rate increased significantly between 2000 and 2014 — despite the rest of the world’s success in reducing the number of women dying from pregnancy complications. A developed world country increasing its maternal mortality rate?
And Texas, the second-largest state in America, has doubled maternal mortality rates in just a two-year period especially since there is no war, natural disaster, or severe economic upheaval. Texas is one of the most dangerous places in the developed world to be pregnant, but why? Photo courtesy of Pexels
The researchers have called for efforts to be redoubled to prevent maternal deaths and improve maternity care for the 4 million U.S. women giving birth each year.
In 2012, 148 women in Texas died from pregnancy complications, up significantly from 72 deaths two years before.
There is one possible reason for the Lone Star State’s staggering rates; its Republican-led state legislature.
The slashing of funding to Planned Parenthood and decimated its reproductive healthcare clinics in Texas in 2011, just before the rise in maternal mortality, has been suggested as the likely cause. Budgets were cut from $111.5 million to $37.9 million for family planning which is quite substantial. This likely meant less access or more difficult and delayed access to health care for more pregnant women since clinic were greatly reduced in number.
The lesson maybe be that before budget cuts repercussions need to be investigated there is now a serious problem with maternal mortality.
What does this example also teach developing world countries about budgets for family planning clinic? and the health strategy especially to make motherhood safe?
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