some great articles on maternity care
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/tag/politics-of-childbirth
A quote from one of the articles Why Women Deliver?Why Now?
The fact of life is that huge disparities exist between rich and poor countries, and between the rich and the poor in all countries.
One in 30,000 women in Sweden will die of pregnancy complications.
One in 2,500 women will die of these causes in the United States.
In sub-Saharan Africa, one in every 16 women will die in pregnancy or childbirth.
In Afghanistan, such complications kill one in every seven women.
Sad to see the US has such a high rate of mortality for an industrialized country and even sadder is that most American don't realize there's a problem.
2 comments:
Harsh statistics. Speaking of which, how does Canada stand in those rankings?
Not entirely sure. I found a few different rates from different years but overall Canada's rate looks a lot lower than the US.
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