12/01/2024
Trigger Warning ⚠️ MBBRACE report headlines.
Extracting the ones relevant to Black Maternal Matters, the data shows that:
• “The maternal death rate in 2020-22 was 13.41 deaths per 100,000 maternities. Up from 8.79 deaths per 100,000 maternities reported in the previous complete three year period (2017-19);
• The maternal death rate for women from Black ethnic backgrounds has decreased slightly from the rate in 2019-21 but Black women remain three times more likely to die compared to White women. The maternal death rate for women from Asian ethnic backgrounds remains two times higher than that of White women;
• Women living in the most deprived areas still have a maternal death rate more than twice that of women living in the least deprived areas.”
Additionally, “Dr Nicola Vousden, Co-Chair of the Faculty of Public Health Women’s Health Specialist Interest Group, said: ‘Persisting inequalities by ethnicity and socioeconomic status indicate that we must think beyond maternity care to address the underlying structures that impact health before, during and after pregnancy, such as housing, education and access to healthy environments.’”
What are your thoughts on the most recent statistics?
The latest set of data presented by the MBRRACE-UK Collaboration investigation into maternal deaths in the UK shows that the mortality rate for women who died during or soon after pregnancy has increased to levels not seen since 2003-05.
