Maternal Mortality Rate Doubles In Texas, Highest in Developed World

Exiled · Jul 29, 2018

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Infant mortality is defined differently within the US vs the rest of the world. Many developed countries don't report deaths to infants within the first 24 hours as they are not yet considered live births.
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name one country in EU or at any developed/semi developed State that does not reports any of Fetal/StillBirth/Neo-Preinatal mortailty !

Kim · Jul 30, 2018

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name one country in EU or at any developed/semi developed State that does not reports any of Fetal/StillBirth/Neo-Preinatal mortailty !
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Isn't this the thread where I ranted about data reporting issues for infant mortality when the OP was reporting on maternal mortality? Well, I don't really want to derail it, but since you asked: Sweden reports it differently.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5488116/
https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1471-0528.2001.00291.x

As mentioned, differences in rankings based on crude versus such birth weight-specific rates of stillbirth and neonatal death reflect international differences in the registration of births at the borderline of viability. In fact, the potential for such bias in international comparisons of fetal and infant mortality rates due to differences in birth registration has been recognized for decades and the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that international comparisons of infant mortality be restricted to live births with a birth weight ≥1000 g.
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I think the point I was trying to make two years ago is that, there are a butt load of differences in how countries collect and report these statistics (and there's even differences among states in the USA - yeah federalism), so until it's standardized, the data has reliability issues that need to be accounted for when doing analysis. And that process of data standardization is complicated and not friendly for headline-catching general public consumption.

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