After years on the rise, the U.S. maternal mortality rate decreased in 2022, new government data show. But maternal health experts warn there’s no reason to celebrate: The dip is a course correction following the Covid-19 pandemic, and mothers in the United States continue to die at dramatically higher rates than mothers in other high-income countries.
The racial disparities continued as well, with Black mothers in the U.S. dying at more than two and a half times the rate of white mothers, according to the data released Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics, a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Click this link for the original source of this article.
Author: Elizabeth Cohen
This content is courtesy of, and owned and copyrighted by, https://www.statnews.com and its author. This content is made available by use of the public RSS feed offered by the host site and is used for educational purposes only. If you are the author or represent the host site and would like this content removed now and in the future, please contact USSANews.com using the email address in the Contact page found in the website menu.