maternal mortality

A smaller metal gurney is shown next to a larger one in the hallway of a maternity ward at the University of Alabama Hospital.

Discussion: Why are more US mothers dying and what can be done?

March 1, 2019Health & Medicine

Maternal mortality has dropped around the world but deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth doubled in the United States between 2000 and 2014. In partnership with Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and WGBH News, we explored why more mothers dying and what can be done.

A woman looks into a piece of a mirror in Hargeysa, Somalia.

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