Chief Healthcare Executive April 15, 2024
With the observance of Black Maternal Health Week, Kisha Davis of the American Academy of Family Physicians talks about the crisis and protecting mothers.
Too many women in America are dying or suffering severe complications to pregnancy, but Black women are seeing even higher risks of poor outcomes.
Maternal deaths rose 40% in 2021 compared to the previous year, according to figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Black women are 2.6 times more likely to die of maternal causes than white women, according to federal data. Black women are also twice as likely as white patients to suffer severe maternal complications, according to an analysis by the Commonwealth Fund.
With the observance of Black Maternal Health Week...
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