Maternal Mortality Rate in the United States
Okwuchukwu Innocent Udemba
Queensborough Community College INTRODUCTION
The United States ranks at the least among developed countries in relation to rates of women dying during a pregnancy, childbirth, or the postpartum period. The rate of maternal mortality in the United States when compared to countries like the United Kingdom and Canada is tripled but also it is six times higher than the rate in Scandinavian countries like Greece, Iceland, or Poland. According to the Center for Disease Control and prevention, maternal health in the United States has been shown to be increasingly improving in the 21st century due to medical and technological advances but as a developed country, the…show more content… According to ProPublica, African American women that are highly educated with college degrees are more likely to die from a pregnancy than uneducated white women. The need for a comprehensive racial antibias training to address the overt and unconscious racism that spread through our community and especially the medical community.
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