Disparity in maternal deaths because of ethnicity is “unacceptable”

Unnecessary uncertainty is unacceptable.

Towards elimination of maternal deaths: maternal deaths surveillance and response

Current methods for estimating maternal mortality lack precision, and are not suitable for monitoring progress in the short run. In addition, national maternal mortality ratios (MMRs) alone do not provide useful information on where the greatest burden of mortality is located, who is concerned, what are the causes, and more importantly what sub-national variations occur. This paper discusses a ...

Maternal deaths in the UK: pre-eclampsia deaths are avoidable.

582 www.thelancet.com Vol 389 February 11, 2017 Being pregnant in the UK has never been safer. The latest Confi dential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity reported that fewer than one in 10 000 women died in or around pregnancy in the UK during 2012–14 (241 women within the triennium), the lowest rate recorded since such surveillance began in 1952 in England and Wales. This maternal m...

"Sleep disparity" in the population: poor sleep quality is strongly associated with poverty and ethnicity

BACKGROUND Little is known about the social determinants of sleep attainment. This study examines the relationship of race/ethnicity, socio-economic status (SES) and other factors upon sleep quality. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of 9,714 randomly selected subjects was used to explore sleep quality obtained by self-report, in relation to socioeconomic factors including poverty, employment ...

Autism, ethnicity and maternal immigration.

BACKGROUND A growing number of European studies, particularly from Nordic countries, suggest an increased frequency of autism in children of immigrant parents. In contrast, North American studies tend to conclude that neither maternal ethnicity nor immigrant status are related to the rate of autism-spectrum disorders. AIMS To examine the hypotheses that maternal ethnicity and/or immigration a...