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Sunday, June 25th, 2023

Study of wealthy nations finds American women most likely to die of preventable causes, pregnancy complications

Author:     Virginia Langmaid
Source:     CNN
Publication Date:     Tue April 5, 2022 | 4:19 PM EDT
 Link: Study of wealthy nations finds American women most likely to die of preventable causes, pregnancy complications
Stephan:  

The illness profit system that masquerades as health care in the United States provides the worst medical care in the developed world, based on objectively verifiable social outcome data. But even within those dreadful statistics healthcare for women stands out particularly. This report is a year old, but the latest I could find, and as awful as it is, things post-Dobbs have actually gotten much worse, particularly in Republican controlled Red states. How a fertile American woman can vote Republican is beyond me. Nor do I understand why women and the men that support them are not out in the street by the millions. Someone needs to organize a weekend when throughout the country woman and men fill the roadways demanding our miserable Congress passes a national law affirming a woman’s right to control her own body.

A new study found that women in the US face the highest rates of preventable and maternal mortality when compared with women in 10 other wealthy nations.

According to data collected by the Commonwealth Fund and published Tuesday, American women have an avoidable mortality rate of 198 per 100,000, the highest of any nation included in the study. The United Kingdom had the next highest rate, at 146 per 100,000.

US sees continued rise in maternal deaths — and ongoing inequities, CDC report shows

The US also had the highest maternal mortality rate: 23.8 deaths per 100,000 live births, more than triple the rate of any other country studied. When looking only at Black maternal mortality, the rate jumped to 55.3 deaths per 100,000 live births.

By comparison, in Norway in 2019, the last year for which data was available, there were zero maternal deaths.

“A high rate of cesarean sections, inadequate prenatal care, and elevated rates of chronic illnesses like obesity, diabetes, and heart disease may be factors contributing to the high U.S. maternal mortality rate. […]

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1 Comment

  1. sam crespi on Monday, June 26, 2023 at 9:55 am

    Seems like the more we see women coming together, challenging old standards, the greater the backlash. I’m currently spending time in MX and one of the behavioral differences that really struck me was how the women here receive much more respect. The respect and and love is strikingly tangible when men here talk about their mothers, their daughters, their sisters..