Meeting the challenges of measuring and preventing maternal mortality in the United States

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• Personal Author:
  Tsigas, Eleni Z. ; Callaghan, William M. ; Hollier, Lisa M. ; Etiebet, Mary-Ann ; Iskander, John K. ; Thorpe, Phoebe ; Laird, Susan
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of the Associate Director for Communication.
• Description:
  Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 1:00 p.m. (ET)
  
  Women in the United States are more likely to die from childbirth or pregnancy-related causes than other women in high-income countries. More evidence is needed to understand the actual causes of death better, but research suggests that half of these deaths may be preventable. Racial disparities persist. The risk of pregnancy-related deaths for black women is three to four times higher than those of white women.
  
  Eleni Z. Tsigas, Chief Executive Officer, Preeclampsia Foundation, [“Maternal Mortality Beyond the Numbers” ]; William M. Callaghan, MD MPH, Chief, Maternal and Infant Health Branch, Division of Reproduction Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, [“Accounting for Maternal Deaths: Action Requires Better Data” ]; Lisa M. Hollier, MD, MPH, FACOG, President-elect, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; Chair, Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force; Professor, Baylor College of Medicine “Policies and Practices to Protect Lives of Pregnant Women, Mothers and Mothers-to-Be”]; Mary-Ann Etiebet, MD MBA, Executive Director, Merck for Mothers, [“Role of Public-Private Partnerships in Generating Evidence for High Impact Solutions”].
  
  Facilitated by: John Iskander, MD, MPH, Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds; Phoebe Thorpe, MD, MPH, Deputy Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds; Susan Laird, MSN, RN, Communications Director, Public Health Grand Rounds.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Maternal Mortality Pre-Eclampsia/diagnosis Pregnancy
• Series:
  Public Health Grand Rounds
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Presentation
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  67 numbered slides
• Citation:
  Public Health grand rounds ; 2017 October 17
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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