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How to use the word maternal in a Sentence?

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The main reason why I’m not surprised is that we already know that there are significant racial and ethnic disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality in our country, with Black women three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes, and the main disparities that we see in mortality, we also see in morbidity.

Zsakeba Henderson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This study can help hospitals and states target quality improvement initiatives toward the leading indicator of severe maternal morbidity, while the data is based on billing codes and not patient charts, it’s an excellent start to understanding the causes of maternal morbidity by state and the disparities that exist.

Doee Kitessa

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While the data is based on billing codes and not patient charts, it’s an excellent start to understanding the causes of maternal morbidity by state and the disparities that exist, this can help states and healthcare institutions begin to address and work to decrease the rates of severe maternal morbidity that are affecting the patients they care for.

Doee Kitessa

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In terms of maternal mortality, it continues to highlight those structural and systemic problems that we saw so clearly during the Covid-19 pandemic, so in terms of issues of racial health inequities, of structural racism and bias, of access to health care, all of those factors that we know have played a role in terms of maternal mortality in the past continue to play a role in maternal mortality.

Chasity Jennings-Nuñez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So in terms of issues of racial health inequities, of structural racism and bias, of access to health care, all of those factors that we know have played a role in terms of maternal mortality in the past continue to play a role in maternal mortality.

Chasity Jennings-Nuñez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Making sure that these women actually are appropriately followed after their delivery and that there is a warm handoff between [obstetrics] and [maternal-fetal medicine] to their primary care doctors or preventive cardiologists who can then talk about optimizing cardiovascular risks and reduction of these risk factors post-pregnancy in the postpartum time frame is crucial.

Garima Sharma

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I never claimed to be Jewish, i am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background, I said I was ‘Jew-ish.’.

George Santos

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But also we recently started working in partnership with the Department of Health because our state has some maternal health equity issues …, and one of the things we thought would be good is to start training more people to serve as a doula because we saw a lot of women who came through were single moms and they had nobody.

Sarah Smith

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It is as if somebody came down with a magic marker and circled the states least equipped to deal with an abortion ban and with the largest percentage of their population falling into the most elevated risk categories, so, you are setting up a prescription for phenomenal effects in terms of maternal mortality, infant mortality, infant low birthweight, all of the risks that follow from these kinds of [ unplanned or unwanted ] pregnancies.

Sara Rosenbaum

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[ People ] may seek unsafe ways of terminating a pregnancy and could have harmful consequences, you also have people who may sort of be forced to continue pregnancies to term and could have a risk of infant health outcomes that include low birth weight, preterm birth, or may have a risk of maternal mortality.

Whitney Rice

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's a real negative narrative around Black women, Black girls and Black motherhood that really drives a lot of the ways in which Black birthing people in general are treated in the health care system, we want change, and we want to see an end to maternal mortality.

Angela Aina

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Expanding the role of these two crucial initiatives is essential to recovering from COVID and addressing the inequities that already existed in maternal health, especially in communities of color.

New York

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Watching her become a mother has been its own friendship high for me, even some of the straight up love songs that we wrote, you can still feel this sort of maternal long game approach to life and love.

Laura Veltz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was not a soundbite parenting experience. None of my parents had a lot of training to be parents themselves. They did the best they could, which was not good at all, when you have a parent who's nontraditional, chaos become part of the picture. But she was a great friend, she was a magnetic force. She may not have had the greatest maternal instinct but she had the ability to transcend any differences.

Renay Mandel Corren

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Big Abortion has ensured that abortion remains unregulated, making in-clinic abortions indistinguishable from so-called ‘back alley’ abortions, abortion-vulnerable communities need economic and racial justice to address the root cause of abortion and the abysmal maternal mortality rate, especially for Black women, not the option to terminate the lives of our offspring!

Terrisa Bukovinac

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Vice President Harris’s statement that ‘women will die’ if Roe is overturned relies heavily on the lie that abortion is safe and necessary for women, she fails to acknowledge that the United States has one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the developed world, while having the most liberal abortion laws in the world.

Mary Szoch

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Even though some of the effects are small, Maternal STIs do appear to increase your chance of delivering preterm.

Kelli Ryckman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

COVID-19 has severe systemic effects on the body, especially symptomatic patients, it is possible that these effects are amplified in pregnant mothers, who have increased fetal and maternal oxygen demands.

Kristine Lane

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Whereas we expected that spiders had maternal instincts from their very beginning, it is, nevertheless, very nice to have actual physical evidence from the fossil record about 100 million years ago.

Paul Selden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's less of a clinical medical issue than it is a public health issue, we need to actually have a system that cares for people throughout their lives. This is not just about maternal deaths -- this is about women's deaths.

Gene Declercq

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He grabbed her and I’m just kind of coaching him the way through and[his] training and my maternal instincts kicked in, it workedreally welltogether between the two of us.

Alexis Day

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I am heartbroken to confirm that my naniji (maternal grandmother), Amarjeet Kaur Johal, is among those killed in the senseless shooting at the FedEx facility in Indianapolis, i have several family members who work at the particular facility and are traumatized. My nani, my family, and our families should not feel unsafe at work, at their place of worship, or anywhere.

Komal Chohan

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I think that as a mother, those maternal instincts in her were set off and she did care.

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Health literacy is a big issue in the older African American population because of how people were educated when they were young, my maternal grandmother, she had a third-grade education. My grandfather, he made it to the fifth grade. For many people, understanding the information that's put out, especially when it changes so often and people don't really understand why, is a challenge.

Margaret Boddie

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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