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kabrams
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 Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 7:56 pm Post subject: Report condemns US death rates of women in childbirth |
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The death rate of women giving birth in the US is worse than in 40 other countries, including nearly all the industrialised countries, Amnesty International said today in a report that describes the country's approach to maternity care as "disgraceful and scandalous".
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the likelihood of a woman dying in childbirth in the US is five times greater than in Greece.
The US has some of the best medical care in the world, but Amnesty says the lives of poor, uninsured, African American and Native American women are put at risk by neglect.
"This country's extraordinary record of medical advancement makes its haphazard approach to maternal care all the more scandalous and disgraceful," said US Amnesty executive director Larry Cox. "Good maternal care should not be considered a luxury available only to those who can access the best hospitals and the best doctors. Women should not die in the richest country on earth from preventable complications and emergencies.
"Mothers die not because the United States can't provide good care, but because it lacks the political will to make sure good care is available to all women." |
More here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/12/amnesty-us-maternal-mortality-rates?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
This is not a continuation of the abortion thread, so if you want to take it there, go back to that thread. |
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Fox
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| Just another example of why medical technology is not the only thing that matters when talking about a health care system. This kind of thing is just plain disgraceful. Maternal care is a basic medical necessity for the continuation of society; if our society is providing it less effectively than other societies, that's an immense black mark on our health care system no matter how you look at it. |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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| They should stay home and eat miyeokguk |
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kabrams
Joined: 15 Mar 2008
Location: your Dad's house
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| Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Fox wrote: |
| Just another example of why medical technology is not the only thing that matters when talking about a health care system. This kind of thing is just plain disgraceful. Maternal care is a basic medical necessity for the continuation of society; if our society is providing it less effectively than other societies, that's an immense black mark on our health care system no matter how you look at it. |
Thank you!
I find it seriously sad that so many people are against "a public option" (can we please just call it National Healthcare? Christ.) when it's looking more and more like we actually need it...I mean, poor women and the uninsured should have the same options. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 1:03 am Post subject: |
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| Mothers die not because the United States can't provide good care, but because it lacks the political will to make sure good care is available to all women. |
the rub |
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