Talk:Maternal death/Archive 2

Updated statistics
Hi, I am a junior at Rice University and would like to point out some sources of revision. As maternal mortality rates are updated each year, I think the article should represent the most recent statistics. Where is the reference for "The world mortality rate has declined 45% since 1990, but still 800 women die every day from pregnancy or childbirth related causes?" I have added the citation needed references, but these statistics need to be corroborated. Additionally, a bulk of the statistics seem to be from the WHO, but what other organizations are credible to state for maternal mortality statistics?

In reference to the limiting the definition of maternal mortality to that of the WHO, I agree with B4change1 in that the definition should not be limited to one organization.

Further, it would be interesting to separate maternal mortality trends in the developed and underdeveloped worlds. It is also important to emphasize that the maternal mortality rate in the U.S. has increased in 48 states from 2000 to 2014 with Texas having the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world. (http://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/Citation/2016/09000/Recent_Increases_in_the_U_S__Maternal_Mortality.6.aspx) Sa49 (talk) 00:38, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Maternal mortality ratio, 2015.jpg, this is wrong ratio of South Korea. 11 for 2015 at WHO web Neoper (talk) 14:03, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

Maternal mortality RATIOs, PLEASE!!!
This article gives numbers on how many total women are dying from childbirth, and numbers on where, and numbers on why, but does NOT tell the ratios per 100,000 births!!! I want to know, if I give birth in USA, or in the Third World, HOW LIKELY AM I TO SURVIVE THE EXPERIENCE??? I want death rates PER 100,000 childbirths!!! The article, as far as I can see, doesn't give them. This is probably the most important question anyone would access this article in order to ask. FIX THIS PLEASE!!!!! HandsomeMrToad (talk) 09:32, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

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Updating article
I have just updated Maternal health and this article concurrently based on the December 2017 ProPublica and NPR series. At this time the content I added and references are identical. This will change over time.Oceanflynn (talk) 19:14, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

Edits I suggest
This is an interesting topic that correlates a lot with the current topic I am editing (Birth Weight) for an Environmental Health Class Project. I think this article could be improved by discussing the gaps in care in developing countries, and what we can do to assist this problem. Also, I think it would be interesting to provide some insight regarding the child's health of maternal deaths, and if there are any long-term effects on the child. Ecostello1213 (talk) 14:35, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Updates needed
As part of a group project, we plan to update several of the sources within this article, add some citations and add a bit of content reflecting public health issues, including social disadvantages related to maternal mortality. If anyone has any input or suggestions on these changes, please let me know. --Sebaker92 (talk) 18:10, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Updated sections
This is my first time editing a Wikipedia page, I updated the Severe Maternal Morbidity section and Public Health sections as they were lacking in information and needed some editing as well. Please let me know if there are any suggestions to improve my edits/sources. Sebaker92 (talk) 16:51, 20 November 2018 (UTC)


 * I am an experienced editor and I've devoted a lot of my time to childbirth related articles. To be quite honest, student editors (in any of our articles) are almost always obviously lazy and try to do as little as possible--and their work shows it.  I can only assume that many of them think that this will be an easy credit class.  I don't know what's going on here--if it's the school or the teacher or what, but the work that these two students have done is just stunningly good.  They most likely learned what I know--just a sentence or two in Wikipedia can take hours of research and attempts to condense the information and get it to sound encyclopedic takes a lot of time as well.  Since these two students have nothing to compare themselves to, they most likely think they just did what students usually do.  I want them to both know that they did not.  They somehow managed to become excellent editors practically overnight.
 * One more thing, as a matter of fact student editors are not to be totally blamed when their work is not quite up to snuff. I know very well from experience how difficult it can be to "improve" an existing article--much more difficult than even to write a brand new one. These two students deserve an "A+" for their work here.  Gandydancer (talk) 17:56, 29 November 2018 (UTC)