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Tag: Mortality

  • America’s Infant Mortality Rate Is Increasing

    America’s Infant Mortality Rate Is Increasing

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    [ad_1] The infant mortality rate in the U.S. is on its way up. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show a nearly 3% rise in the rate of infant deaths between 2021 and 2022, which is the largest year-over-year increase the agency has recorded since 2002.  The total number of…

  • Canadian mortality rose in 2021: StatCan

    Canadian mortality rose in 2021: StatCan

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    [ad_1] More people died in Canada in 2021 than the previous year, with cancer, heart disease, overdoses and COVID-19 cited as the leading causes of death. Data from Statistics Canada shows an increase in mortality among men as driving the rise in deaths to 311,640 — an increase of one per cent from…

  • Black & Native Mothers Most Impacted By Maternal Mortality Crisis

    Black & Native Mothers Most Impacted By Maternal Mortality Crisis

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    [ad_1] A new study is highlighting how maternal mortality rates in the United States are rising, and it’s calling attention to the particularly devastating impact it’s having on Black mothers—as well as Indigenous American and Alaska Native women. For context, Yale Medicine defines maternal mortality as happening when “a woman dies in pregnancy, childbirth, or the…