The Missouri DHSS released their 2018-2022 Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review. The pregnancy-related deaths are decreasing ...

Top causes of pregnancy-related death: mental health conditions and cardiovascular disease JEFFERSON CITY, MO -- The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Se ...

The definition of maternal mortality or maternal death varies slightly amongst the different governing organizations. The standing definition is that maternal death is the death of a pregnant woman ...

Three years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to abortion care established by Roe v. Wade in ...

Advanced maternal age, or geriatric pregnancy, refers to people who become pregnant at age 35 or older. The majority of healthy people who get pregnant in their late 30s, and even into their early 40s ...

Sierra Leone has very high maternal and neonatal mortality rates, and a large proportion of these deaths occur in adolescents, a particularly vulnerable group, and is usually driven by poverty, lack ...

Background Caesarean section (CS) is the most common major surgery conducted globally, with rates rising. CS also contributes to maternal morbidity and mortality, with increased risks in low-resource ...

Objectives While COVID-19 has a relatively small direct impact on infant mortality, the pandemic is expected to indirectly increase mortality of this vulnerable group in low-income and middle-income ...

Maternal mortality in the USA, after a dramatic fall from 900s/100,000 live births in the early 1900s, largely due to the advent of antibiotics, plateaued at 8–10/100,000 from 1980 until the ...

The highest infant mortality rate is in the 43211 ZIP code, which is the Linden area, with 17.9 deaths per 1,000 births. Two ZIP codes have mortality rates of 14.7 deaths per 1,000 births: 43203 (the ...

That is lower than the previous record of 6.2 set in 2021. Infant mortality is when an infant dies before its first birthday. There were 607 infant deaths per 99,179 births in 2023.

In 2023, 607 infants under the age of one died and the state’s infant mortality rate declined to 6.1 infant deaths per 1,000 live births. While there is still work to be done, this is a decrease ...