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World Numbers Mothers Dying Childbirth - Culture, Family, Travel, Consumer Reviews - Posted: 14th Oct, 2007 - 6:57pm
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World Numbers: Mothers Dying In Childbirth
It's always interesting to me that the higher the intervention in pregnancy and childbirth, the higher the death rate for mothers and babies, both. This is the first world-wide report in five years. Guess how the U.S. rates? Sadly, not near the top.
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| U.S. maternal death rate higher than Europe's: report October 13, 2007 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has a sharply higher rate of women dying during or just after pregnancy than European countries, even some relatively poor countries such as Macedonia and Bosnia, according to the first estimates in five years on maternal deaths worldwide. The report released by various United Nations agencies and the World Bank on Friday shows that Ireland has the lowest rate of deaths, while several African countries have the worst. The United States has a far higher death rate than the European average, the report shows, with one in 4,800 U.S. women dying from complications of pregnancy or childbirth, the same as Belarus and just slightly better than Serbia's rate of one in 4,500. Just one out of 47,600 women in Ireland die during or just after childbirth, the report found. Bosnia had the second-lowest rate, with 1 in 29,000 women dying during pregnancy and childbirth. "Among the ten top-ranked European and other industrialized countries, where women are guaranteed good-quality health and family planning services that minimize their lifetime risk, fewer than one in 16,400 will die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth," the United Nations, which issued the report along with the World Bank, said in a statement. ....The report, published in the Lancet medical journal, places the United States 41st among 171 countries. The four lowest-ranked countries in the report are Chad, with 1 in 11 women dying in pregnancy or childbirth, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone with one in eight, and Niger losing one in seven mothers. "Americans tend to be complacent about pregnancy and childbirth. Most believe it is now more or less routine and no longer the deadly risk it was for their grandmothers. This is true for most U.S. women, but by no means for all," the U.N.-led group said in a statement. |
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I was very surprised to read this. You tend to think that American healthcare is second to none, and therefore you'd presume that the death rate in Mother's giving birth there would be very minimal. Sadly not so, but there must be a reason for it, maybe like the report says that people are just becoming complacent. If this is the case and people are losing their lives early for this reason, it really needs addressing and sorting out urgently!
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