U.S. maternal death rate higher than Europe's: report

[Lone_Star_Dem]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has a sharply higher rate of women dying during or just after pregnancy than European countries, even some relatively poor countries such as Macedonia and Bosnia, according to the first estimates in five years on maternal deaths worldwide.

The report released by various United Nations agencies and the World Bank on Friday shows that Ireland has the lowest rate of deaths, while several African countries have the worst.

The United States has a far higher death rate than the European average, the report shows, with one in 4,800 U.S. women dying from complications of pregnancy or childbirth, the same as Belarus and just slightly better than Serbia's rate of one in 4,500.

Just one out of 47,600 women in Ireland die during or just after childbirth, the report found. Bosnia had the second-lowest rate, with 1 in 29,000 women dying during pregnancy and childbirth.

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[Miss Chybil]

1. I hope many medical teams will be dispatched to Ireland

to find what they are doing right.

[Kittycat]

2. For one - I'm sure they don't offer elective c-sections like they do here in the states.

[Miss Chybil]

3. You could be right.

It will be interesting to see what the differences are.

[kimmylavin]

6. Oh, come now!

We can't go making childbirth inconvenient for the doctors now, can we?
Much easier to schedule a birth during banker's hours.

[kath]

7. and all those damned elective inductions for NORMAL pregnancies.

medical interventions should NOT be done for convenience.

[aquart]

16. Are these Caesarean death rates?

Or you're just blathering? Because my blather guesses the death rates aren't in the c-sections, but births in mothers who lacked adequate pre-natal care because they lack insurance. And those are hardly the women who will be scheduling c-sections because of their busy schedules, are they?

[me b zola]

4. My guess is what we're doing wrong

Specifically, access to health care.

[robinlynne]

10. my guess is they have health care?

[Joe Chi Minh]

5. It's socialised medicine. I'd be very surprised if that rate hasn't risen

substantially in the UK since 1980. Everything else in terms of the material and social infrastructure inevitably has, as a result of ever-declining funding. The scale of the reduction of the income and corporation tax could not be made good, in spite of the relentlessly creeping stealth taxes, flat taxes, of course, on the population at large.

[lovuian]

8. America pays astronomical healthcare and gets poor care

its sad

[aquart]

9. Thanks, George, for killing our women and children.

[Thothmes]

14. How was it different during the last few presidencies

[aquart]

15. Go check the maternal death rates for those years.

Then you'll know.

[Thickasabrick]

11. Blacks in US have much higher death rate than whites....no

surprise there. More white people can afford medical care.

[BlueIris]

12. !*#&$%^!%#&!(~~)!!! It always alarms me when people are "surprised" to read things like this.

You don't actually think American doctors got into the business because they give a rat's ass about their patients, do you? Silly fools.

[tom_paine]

13. Imperial Amerika is a very rich Third World Nation.

But it IS a Third World Nation with all of the political and social weaknesses (not as prominently obvious nor as physically threatening, yet, to the people they rule), as other Third World nations besides Imperial Amerika.

These statistics, measured out of the lowest classes and most despised (by their rulers) in all Impeial Amerika, show it quite clearly.

Quite clearly.

And soon, those Third World characteristics, if they haven't already, will spread to the what remains of the Middle Class, left over from the days when America was free.

[Tesha]

17. Does this actually surprise anyone?

No health care = More maternal deaths.

Tesha