Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.bsky.social

Now you know: This is bad. Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births: Selected countries, 1990-2020
www.who.int/publications...
#publichealth #demography

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Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 04, 2023 at 21:09 UTC

In some good news, most (some say ~all) of the increase in the 2000s is due to the staggered rollout of a new way of counting maternal deaths: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32510309/

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 04, 2023 at 23:00 UTC

Addendum! US increase largely attributable to introduction of a death certificate checkbox (was decedent pregnant/recently pregnant). When coroners checks the box, it's maternal death. Probably fixed underreporting but with some overreporting. ht @kaseybuckles.bsky.social www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/se...

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Courtney Boen @courtneyboen.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 04, 2023 at 19:18 UTC

Wow. This is so, so devastating.

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Jonathan Gitlin @drgitlin.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 04, 2023 at 20:35 UTC

And this is before all the obgyns left a bunch of red states. Imagine how much worse the 2030 graph is going to look.

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