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submitted 1 month ago by girlfreddy@lemmy.ca to c/news@lemmy.world

More than a third of US counties do not have a single medical birthing facility or the services of an obstetric clinician, causing health advocates to warn about the dangers of “maternity care deserts”, a new report says.

The report (PDF), issued by March of Dimes, an infant health non-profit, and published on Tuesday, found that 35.1% of US counties are what the group calls maternity care deserts, meaning there are no specialist medical services available to provide care.

These 1,104 counties are home to more than 2.3 million women of reproductive age, the report states, and in these counties in 2022, women gave birth to more than 150,000 babies.

The report says that women living in such care deserts and counties with low access to care are more likely to have poorer health before pregnancy, receive less prenatal care, and experience higher rates of preterm birth. Additionally, the researchers state that women in these areas face a 13% higher risk of preterm birth.

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[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 22 points 1 month ago

Oh no, if only this entirely predictable outcome could have somehow been... predicted?

I guess we didn't threaten enough doctors and nurses lives and families /s.

[-] Clent@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Weird. Turns out those with college education have options. Perhaps it wasn't a good idea to make villains out of them.

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago

Nah - back then, that was a problem for tomorrow's (now today's) politicians to have to solve. So long as it worked to put Trump in power, and attempt to remain there, everything was going to be A-okay. And that's my problem with that kind of thinking: it works, but it's always only ever short-term for some reason.

[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Same mentality as "quarterly profits must increase, forever."

[-] Kaboom@reddthat.com -3 points 1 month ago

So how populated are these counties? There's quite a few with less than a hundred people, you'd be lucky with a GP in those counties. And there's even more counties with less than a thousand, perfectly reasonable to be missing a obstetrician. Definitely not ideal, but still reasonable.

This is basically a "people live in cities" post.

this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2024
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