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More or Less: Behind the Stats
How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.
Jun 29, 2024
Saloni Dattani, a researcher at Our World in Data, joins Tim Harford to uncover how a simple tick box on death certificates led to a doubling of US maternal mortality rates. The podcast explores the impact of changes in data collection methods, discrepancies in maternal mortality data due to checkbox usage, and the implications of counting all deaths with the checkbox ticked as maternal deaths.
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- Misleading rise in US maternal mortality rates due to flawed data collection methods.
- Implementation of a pregnancy checkbox system led to significant inaccuracies in reported maternal deaths.
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Understanding the Rise in US Maternal Mortality Rates
The podcast delves into the increase in maternal mortality rates in the US since the early 2000s, a stark contrast to the global decline. The World Health Organization's broad definition of maternal deaths led to a discrepancy in counting these deaths. The US introduced a pregnancy checkbox system that significantly increased reported maternal deaths, regardless of the actual cause being pregnancy-related. This method created a misleading rise in maternal mortality rates, making accurate data interpretation challenging.
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