I’ve often written in my Substack posts about the inexcusable rate of maternal mortality in the U.S. So it surprised me to find a National Public Radio (NPR) article claiming the data on maternal mortalities reported by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) was too high by a factor of three. This new study claims that the maternal mortality rate in the U.S. is 10.4 deaths per 100,000 births instead of the rates reported by the NCHS below:
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U.S. Maternal Mortality Rate is Not Really…
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I’ve often written in my Substack posts about the inexcusable rate of maternal mortality in the U.S. So it surprised me to find a National Public Radio (NPR) article claiming the data on maternal mortalities reported by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) was too high by a factor of three. This new study claims that the maternal mortality rate in the U.S. is 10.4 deaths per 100,000 births instead of the rates reported by the NCHS below: