12 to 15 deaths per 100,000. This rate has been consistent for the last 5 years. The initial goal for the United States maternal mortality rate was 4.3 set by the Healthy People 2010 but our rate has consistently been 3-4 times larger than the national average goal.
James Marion Sims is the father of modern gynecology responsible for developing the ______.
The speculum which took 4 years to perfect after practicing on slave women with no anesthetic.
Global rates of maternal mortality have fallen in the past 15 years by a third. Has the US followed this trend?
At what rate did the worldwide maternal mortality decrease between the years 1990-2015?
49% due to millennium development goals based off of the World Health Organization.
830 women per day. Annual approximately over 300,000 women will die from complications of motherhood. As for the USA 50,000 women a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — endure dangerous and even life-threatening complication during pregnancy. 800 to 900 women a year die in the USA from maternal complications.
Order the following ethnicity/racial groups in order of best to worst maternal health outcomes.
African American
Hispanic/Latina
White
Asian
White (non-Hispanic)
Asian (non-Hispanic)
Hispanic/Latina
African American
Which four countries have the lowest maternal mortality rates?
Finland, Greece, Iceland and Poland. (All of which have some form of universal healthcare.)
Name a key important intervention for safe motherhood.
A trained provider with midwifery skills present at every birth, that transport is available to referral services, and that quality emergency obstetric care is available.
6/10, 70% of these maternal deaths will occur due to health complications with hemorrhaging (extreme loss of blood) and organ failure.
What national organization was responsible for the increased attention to maternal health outcomes in 2018?
The World Health Organization, they launched intra-partum care procedures which were recommendations for both nonclinical and clinical care methods to prevent preventable maternal health complications.
Use of low cost interventions such as Kangaroo mother care (KMC) result in a _____ % reduction in mortality of newborns weighing less than 2000 g. (E.C. What is KMC?)
51%, Kangaroo mother care. This is skin to skin contact with newborn babies. (Hold them. Love them).