Maternal Mortality in the U.S.-Media Narratives and Reality

Black women’s mortality rates are reported to be several fold higher than white women and the overall U.S. rate is said to be substantially higher than other developed nations.

A substantial part of the reported U.S. rate may result from a reporting system that has overestimated maternal deaths and one whose metrics are different from other developed nations.

Read Dr. Stanley Goldfarb’s op-ed on the issue: