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There have been shifts in the demographics of the child-bearing population in Canada and factors including age, medical co-morbidities, and risks and resiliencies associated with race and culture are challenging what we thought we knew about maternal mortality.
We compared maternal MRRs by race and ethnicity from our recoded data to corresponding rate ratios from NCHS data. The maternal MRR is the maternal mortality rate for group A (e.g., non-Hispanic Black women) divided by the maternal mortality rate for group B (e.g., non-Hispanic White women).
- Marian F MacDorman, Marie Thoma, Eugene Declcerq, Elizabeth A Howell
- 2021
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Further analysis reveals discrepancies in outcomes between regions and population groups within Canada. Canada does not have a nationwide ongoing confidential enquiry system to review maternal deaths, near misses, and severe morbidity, and has not set hard targets for maternal mortality reduction.
- Jocelynn L Cook, Mina Majd, Jennifer Blake, Jon Yosef Barrett, Sylvie Bouvet, Patricia Janssen, Mari...
- 2017
Sep 6, 2019 · Racial/ethnic disparities in pregnancy-related mortality were evident in 2007 and continued through 2016, with significantly higher PRMRs among black and AI/AN women than among white, A/PI, and Hispanic women.
- Emily E. Petersen, Nicole L. Davis, David Goodman, Shanna Cox, Carla Syverson, Kristi Seed, Carrie S...
- 2019
May 24, 2022 · In a key 2016 study informing the issue, researchers from McGill University found that 8.9% of Black women gave birth to pre-term babies, compared to 5.9% of their white peers, examining singleton live births for 2004 through 2006. But there is little Canadian national data on Black maternal mortality and other birth-related adverse outcomes.
By race, pregnancy-related mortality rates are 55.3 per 100,000 live births for non-Hispanic Black people, 19.1 for non-Hispanic white people, and 18.2 for Hispanic people.5 This racial and ethnic disparity in mortality rates may be due to several factors such as structural racism, implicit biases, and their impact on access to care, quality of ...
Studies demonstrate the role of race, ethnicity, insurance, and education in pregnancy-related mortality and morbidity risk but lack inclusion of mechanisms and other social determinants.
