Maternity Mortality--United States, 1982-1996

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Maternity Mortality--United States, 1982-1996

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (09/04/98) Vol. 47, No. 34, P. 705

While infant mortality has declined in the United States, maternal mortality has not. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics, the maternity mortality ratio remained about 7.5 deaths per 100,000 live births between 1982 and 1996. With ratios of between 18 and 22 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, African-American women had a much higher maternal mortality rate than white women, who had ratios of between five and six deaths per 100,000 births. The Healthy People 2000 objective is 3.3 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. Some measures that need to be implemented to achieve that goal include family planning services, access to prenatal care, education about sexually transmitted diseases, and STD treatment.

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