U.S. Maternal Mortality Within a Global Context: Historical Trends, Current State, and Future Directions

In the United States, despite significant investment and the efforts of multiple maternal health stakeholders, maternal mortality (MM) has reemerged since 1987 and MM disparity has persisted since 1935. This article provides a review of the U.S. MM trajectory throughout its history up to its current...

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Autores principales: Douthard, Regine A., Martin, Iman K., Chapple-McGruder, Theresa, Langer, Ana, Chang, Soju
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8020556/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33211590
http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2020.8863
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Martin, Iman K.
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Langer, Ana
Chang, Soju
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description In the United States, despite significant investment and the efforts of multiple maternal health stakeholders, maternal mortality (MM) has reemerged since 1987 and MM disparity has persisted since 1935. This article provides a review of the U.S. MM trajectory throughout its history up to its current state. From this longitudinal perspective, MM trends and themes are evaluated within a global context in an effort to understand the problems and contributing factors. This article describes domestic and worldwide strategies recommended by maternal health stakeholders to reduce MM.
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spelling pubmed-80205562021-04-06 U.S. Maternal Mortality Within a Global Context: Historical Trends, Current State, and Future Directions Douthard, Regine A. Martin, Iman K. Chapple-McGruder, Theresa Langer, Ana Chang, Soju J Womens Health (Larchmt) Special Issue Articles In the United States, despite significant investment and the efforts of multiple maternal health stakeholders, maternal mortality (MM) has reemerged since 1987 and MM disparity has persisted since 1935. This article provides a review of the U.S. MM trajectory throughout its history up to its current state. From this longitudinal perspective, MM trends and themes are evaluated within a global context in an effort to understand the problems and contributing factors. This article describes domestic and worldwide strategies recommended by maternal health stakeholders to reduce MM. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2021-02-01 2021-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8020556/ /pubmed/33211590 http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2020.8863 Text en © Regine A. Douthard et al. 2021; Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. This Open Access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are cited.
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