US Maternal Mortality, Maternal Health Disparities, Worsened Since 2019
Maternal mortality and maternal health disparities are only getting worse in the US, even as the nation acknowledges a need for data-driven and community-based solutions.
- Maternal mortality, plus maternal health disparities, continue to get worse, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports the worst figures for maternal mortality in the past few years.
Drawing on the definition from the World Health Organization, CDC stated that a maternal death is “the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and the site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management, but not from accidental or incidental causes.”