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Pregnancy is killing 800 women a day

economist.com

27 pointsMoSattler15 comments

> New death certificates were introduced which identify whether a woman was pregnant at, or shortly before, their death—regardless of the cause

So pregnancy is not necessary the cause of death? That is very important moment, which is very vaguely covered in the article.

Seems like a pregnant woman who died as a passenger in a car crash would be included in these figures

Also people who breathe air. What a terrible article :D

Yes, exactly the example that i thought about.

The pregnancy status is almost useless if the cause of death is missing. It gives no data on underlying problems that needs to be solved.

It useful when comparing (and only when comparing) pregnant with non pregnant, especially with others criteria (typically, age).

The covariance between pregnancy and cause of death is what you want to seek, the only thing that would make that data unusable is a (very) common cause of death covariant with pregnancy, but unrelated to pregnancies. Like, for some reason, pregnant women would start reckless activities, but this behavior change would not be caused by pregnancy, either for physical or social reason.

It seems like that data would be very noisy data. Criteria for age would be one obvious thing, but it would also include social status, social support networks, hours on the road, frequency of visiting the doctor, distance to doctor and home, stress and access to leisure time, cultural factors, economical factors and many more.

The conclusions would also be conditions on such factors and how the interact with each other.

This text is panik driving "journalism". It ignores that women in Europe are now on average older than 20 years ago during a pregnancy. Thus the risk of anything bad happening is higher. Without age-adjusting, it does not really help much.

Also risks without comparisons are often meant to focus on one issue, and ignoring lots of others:

All races and origins, female, 20-24 years (CDC)

  ... All causes                                        5,485 100.0   50.9
  1 Accidents (unintentional injuries) (V01-X59,Y85-Y86)2,502 45.6    23.2
  2 Intentional self-harm (suicide) (*U03,X60-X84,Y87.0)  672 12.3    6.2
  3 Assault (homicide) (*U01-\*U02,X85-Y09,Y87.1)          428 7.8     4.0
  4 Malignant neoplasms (C00-C97)                         313 5.7     2.9
  5 Diseases of heart (I00-I09,I11,I13,I20-I51)           195 3.6     1.8
  6 Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O99)    140 2.6     1.3

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/lcwk/lcwk1_hr_2017-a.pdf

https://archive.ph/a7kJJ

Most of the problems in Africa has to do with not having enough money.

It's very hard to solve, but we could start by forgiving all debt and letting Africa develop by itself.

,,Africa’s debt as a percentage of GDP has been rising quickly since 2014, and is 24.1% of African countries’ GDP (as of 2023 for countries with available data). Yet many individual countries have rates far higher.'

https://data.one.org/topics/african-debt

> Most of the problems in Africa has to do with not having enough money.

> ,,Africa’s debt as a percentage of GDP has been rising quickly since 2014, and is 24.1% of African countries’ GDP (as of 2023 for countries with available data).

24.1% is quite low when it comes to national debt to GDP ratios. Actually quite surprised with that figure. But then again, the interest rates on those loans are probably quite high.

Here is a list for context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_de...

800 is still way too much, but given that we are 7 billion people on the planet the number seems rather low.

Note, the title is meaningless clickbait, the content actually analyzes data by comparison between dates.

We had a lot of progress in artificial wombs i wonder whats the status in 2023

It's DOA for so many reasons

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