I was reading this article on the safest place to be a woman. Go Denmark, when I read the statistics for maternal deaths.
What is going on in the USA to have such high maternal deaths?
“ on maternal mortality, a key indicator of access to healthcare and the responsiveness of the system to women's needs.
Australia had 2.9 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.
Norway was the best in the group with 1.7 deaths, while the United States was the worst with 21.1.”
If you click on https://giwps.georgetown.edu/the-index/ you will go to the report and if you touch the country you want the information pertaining to that country comes up.
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Matildagirl
The above information is bit misleading, that was in the developed world, the breakdown for the world is.
Developed world average is 11.9
Central & East Europe & Central Asia average 17.3
East Asia & Pacific average 77.4
Latin America & Caribbean average 85
Middle East & North Africa 53.8
South Asia average 153.3
Sub Saharan Africa average 506.9
Fragile States average 539.7
The World averages 212
Hopefully the figures are improvements on past years, the data relates to 2020 and we aren’t going backwards.
Regards Matildagirl
@matildagirl a major contributing factor is that Black American moms get worse maternity and pre-natal care and have shocking bad maternal mortality statistics, which brings the US rates down. In addition to having less access to pre-natal care and a more difficult time getting to appointments, their complaints are often brushed off and not taken as seriously as white women.
Serena Williams has published articles about her own near-fatal birth experience. Even though she is a world famous athlete with a very wealthy white husband, she still faced the same attitudes when giving birth.
Another challenge is that we have no system for paid maternity leave. So people will work right up to their due date and beyond because they need money. And in some cases, return to work 2 weeks after giving birth. Some large employers give paid leave but if you are less educated or work for a small business, you’ll probably face pressure to return to work sooner.
Hi everyone, just a little “light” relief from the doom and gloom in the world, a story regarding New Zealand’s bird of the Century election which was just recently held, which got “high jacked” by John Oliver. The two videos explain the why and what of the story and the news story gives the results.
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSNPwrCrJ/
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSNPweSSP/
It’s funny and meant lightheartedly but the theme is being played out in other countries in not so funny ways.
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Matildagirl
@matildagirl I love this story! After reading such upsetting news, I think I’ll stop with this story so I can go peacefully off to sleep.
Reilly believed the competition should be kept open to international voters in 2024.
Additionally, it was amazing to know that people from 195 countries had taken the time to read about birds and vote.
“Bird of the Year has always been a really fun local competition. The more conservation concerns reach a global audience, I think that can only be a good thing.”
While the numbers have not yet been crunched, it’s likely the influx of international votes has resulted in a record-breaking amount of donations to allow Forest and Bird to continue advocating for our taonga (prized) species.
An update for you
Hi everyone,
I know my posts aren’t of the spiritual kind, but I hope you can still find interest in them.
“We finally have a government – but at what cost? I have previously said that New Zealanders did not vote for a lurch to the right. The difference in the seats tell us that story – 59 v 55 on the left when New Zealand First seats are not taken into account. Winston Peters was previously in government with Labour from 2017 to 2020, signing off on the responses to the Christchurch shootings and Covid crises, and one assumes his return with the National party is more about his personal ambitions than a rightward policy direction.”
For those that may be interested in NZ and their recent election (not of the bird variety).
NZ have their new government, it took 6 weeks for the 3 parties required to get an agreement. The leaders of the 2 smaller parties are going to share being deputy prime minister, half the term each.
“On 14 October, the centre-right National party beat the centre-left Labour party, winning a razor-thin majority to govern in a coalition with Act. That majority disappeared once additional voting results were announced three weeks later, forcing National to rely on a third party, New Zealand First, to reach the 61-seat majority needed to form a government.
The country had been in political limbo for weeks, as the three party leaders shuttled between upmarket Auckland hotels to conduct negotiations. It is the second-longest period of negotiations under New Zealand’s mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting system, the first being in 1996, when New Zealand First was also kingmaker and took two months to make a deal.”
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Matildagirl
It will be interesting to see how it all plays out over the next 3 years.
6 weeks to form a government seems like a long time, wow.