Urban centers are seeing the highest rates of pregnancy complications for Ohio women, followed by Appalachia, with Black women being impacted the most, a new report says, pointing to systemic racism, and a lack of health care access.
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Urban regions show the highest rate of severe maternal morbidity, based on Ohio Hospital Association and Ohio Department of Health data compiled by the HPIO. “Stark differences in maternal health outcomes signal that not everyone has what they need to live a healthy life before, during and after pregnancy,” the HPIO report stated.
Racial disparities are also threaded through the geographic regions as a part of the disparities in health, with Black residents in urban counties seeing 115.8 hospital deliveries with severe maternal morbidity issues per 10,000, compared to 62.6 occurrences per 10,000 in White urban residents.
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