Margaret Barnhorst, Health Care Policy Fellow
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) released a report this week describing maternal mortality rates in
the United States in 2020. Overall, 861 women died of maternal causes in 2020
and the maternal mortality rate was 23.8 per 100,000 live births—the highest
since the CDC implemented its Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System in 1987. Consistent
with previous trends, non-Hispanic Black women of all ages remained at the
highest risk of maternal mortality (55.3 deaths per 100,000 live births)
compared to all non-Hispanic White women (19.1 per 100,000) and all Hispanic
women (18.2 per 100,000). For women of all races and ethnicities, those aged 40
and older had a significantly higher mortality rate compared to younger women
with 107.9 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2020—a rate 7.8 times higher than
that of all women younger than 25 years. Within each race, maternal mortality
rates increase with maternal age, as seen in the chart below. When comparing
across races, however, non-Hispanic Black women younger than 25 years had a
higher mortality rate than that of both non-Hispanic White women and Hispanic
women aged 25-39 years. Amid stalled legislation for sweeping health care
reforms, these trends demonstrate a continued need for targeted proposals to
improve maternal care and expand data collection and review in the United
States, especially for the most at-risk populations.
Read more: https://www.americanactionforum.org/weekly-checkup/where-oh-where-will-arpa-h-go/#ixzz7MIsQ2FeL
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