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Maternal mortality soars in U.S., state; Black, Native women hardest hit
Lillie Boudreaux Cronkite News//August 21, 2023//[read_meter]
A certified nurse midwife monitors a baby's hearr rate during a checkup at Blanchfield Army Community Hospital in Kentucky in this 2018. photo. A new report says maternal mortality rates rose steadily from 1999 to 2019, with Black and Indigenous mothers at highest risk. (Photo by Maria Christina Yager/U.S. Army)
Maternal mortality soars in U.S., state; Black, Native women hardest hit
Lillie Boudreaux Cronkite News//August 21, 2023//[read_meter]
Maternal death rates more than doubled over the past 20 years in the U.S., with Black and Indigenous women continuing to see mortality rates that far exceeded other groups –...
