There were an estimated 1,210 maternal deaths in 2019, compared with 505 in 1999, according to a study published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
“It’s a call to action to all of us to understand the root causes — to understand that some of it is about health care and access to health care, but a lot of it is about structural racism and the policies and procedures and things that we have in place that may keep people from being healthy,” Dr. Allison Bryant, one of the study’s authors and a senior medical director for health equity at Mass General Brigham, told The AP.
Researchers at Mass General Brigham, working with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, started with national vital statistics data on deaths and live births. They then used a modeling process to estimate maternal mortality out of every 100,000 live births. Dramatic jumps were found between the first and second decades of the study, The AP said. Researchers identified the five states with the largest increases between those decades:
“I hate to say it, but I was not surprised by the findings. We’ve certainly seen enough anecdotal evidence in a single state or a group of states to suggest that maternal mortality is rising,” Dr. Karen Joynt Maddox, a health services and policy researcher at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis who wasn’t involved in the study, told The AP. “It’s certainly alarming, and just more evidence we have got to figure out what’s going on and try to find ways to do something about this.
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