Black moms die in childbirth 3 times as often as white moms. Except in North Carolina.
Black moms die in childbirth 3 times as often as white moms. Except in North Carolina.
They focused on helping low-income moms, not on race.
Updated by Julia Belluz@juliaoftorontojulia.belluz@voxmedia.com Jul 3, 2017, 12:00pm EDT
Moms in America are more likely to die during or shortly after childbirth compared to mothers in any other developed country. When you start to drill into that grim statistic, though, one thing becomes strikingly clear: It’s largely African American women who are dying.
Black moms across the US are three and a half times more likely to die in childbirth than white Americans. (The pregnancy-related mortality rate is 12 per 100,000 live births for white women, and 40 per 100,000 for black women.)
That gap is also growing:
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Remarkably, though, North Carolina has managed to close its black-white maternal death gap. In 1999, 39 black women per 100,000 live births died as a result of pregnancy-related complications compared to only 11 white women per 100,000. By 2013, the gap closed: The rate was 23 per 100,000 births for both white and black moms, bringing North Carolina about on par with the national maternal mortality rate.
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https://www.vox.com/health-care/2017/7/3/15886892/black-white-moms-die-childbirth-north-carolina-less
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