Maternal Deaths Are Dropping Worldwide...Except In The U.S. In Fact, They Just Rose

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that approximately 830 women die from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth each day. Fortunately, however, that number is growing smaller. This is largely due to the fact that one of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals was to create a 75 percent decrease in maternal mortality rates globally between 1990 and 2015. Unfortunately, the U.S. has fallen far behind in terms of both publishing material related to maternal mortality and actually contributing to those falling rates. While maternal mortality is most closely associated with the developing world, rates in the United States are...

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