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How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.

More or Less: Behind the Stats

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Analyzing the Impact of a Pregnancy Checkbox on Maternal Mortality Rates in the US

The chapter delves into the implications of adding a pregnancy checkbox on death certificates as a way to track maternal mortality rates. It highlights the varying approaches taken by different countries, particularly focusing on the US's method of counting all deaths with the checkbox ticked as maternal deaths.

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