According to the CDC
”For 2011–2015, the national PRMR was 17.2 per 100,000 live births. Non-Hispanic black (black) women and American Indian/Alaska Native women had the highest PRMRs (42.8 and 32.5, respectively), 3.3 and 2.5 times as high, respectively, as the PRMR for non-Hispanic white (white) women (13.0). Timing of death was known for 87.7% (2,990) of pregnancy-related deaths. Among these deaths, 31.3% occurred during pregnancy, 16.9% on the day of delivery, 18.6% 1–6 days postpartum, 21.4% 7–42 days postpartum, and 11.7% 43–365 days postpartum. Leading causes of death included cardiovascular conditions, infection, and hemorrhage, and varied by timing. Approximately sixty percent of pregnancy-related deaths from state MMRCs were determined to be preventable and did not differ significantly by race/ethnicity or timing of death. MMRC data indicated that multiple factors contributed to pregnancy-related deaths. Contributing factors and prevention strategies can be categorized at the community, health facility, patient, provider, and system levels and include improving access to, and coordination and delivery of, quality care.
1) What do these data say about maternal morality among African American women?
1)The data describes the maternal mortality among African Americans women are about 42.8%.Overall the mortality rate is 17.2/100,000.It was nearly 3.3% higher when compared to others. The cause of death are because of cardiovascular conditions, infection and hemorrhage as a contributing factor.It also describes neatly 60% of death could have been prevented.
According to the CDC ”For 2011–2015, the national PRMR was 17.2 per 100,000 live births. Non-Hispanic...
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