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Ohio Lawmakers Form Group To Lower Black Maternal Mortality Rates

Ohio Lawmakers Form Group To Lower Black Maternal Mortality Rates

by Erin Backus | Jun 28, 2019 | News

Paige Pfleger | WOSU Tuesday marks the first-ever meeting of the Ohio Black Maternal Health Caucus. In Ohio, African American women are more likely to die in childbirth than white women. The Black Maternal Health Caucus aims to identify and address the factors that...
Meghan Markle delivered her son in a country with better maternal mortality rates than the United States

Meghan Markle delivered her son in a country with better maternal mortality rates than the United States

by Erin Backus | Jun 22, 2019 | News

Paige Winfield Cunningham | The Washington Post Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, delivered her son yesterday in England, one of many developed countries where childbirth-related deaths have steadily fallen for decades. But the opposite is true in the United States. The...
Huge Racial Disparities Found in Deaths Linked to Pregnancy

Huge Racial Disparities Found in Deaths Linked to Pregnancy

by Erin Backus | Jun 15, 2019 | News

Roni Caryn Rabin | The New York Times African-American, Native American and Alaska Native women are about three times more likely to die from causes related to pregnancy, compared to white women in the United States. African-American, Native American and Alaska Native...
The key to lowering America’s high rates of maternal mortality

The key to lowering America’s high rates of maternal mortality

by Erin Backus | Jun 1, 2019 | News

Melissa Reynolds | The Washington Post Health-care providers have forgotten the central lesson of two millennia of gynecology. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that rates of maternal mortality in the United States — already the highest in the...

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