Copyright by Melissa Hull
When it comes to infant mortality, it is something that remains relatively high in the USA among many other countries out there with a very high standard of living. When looking at the standard of living out there it is very shocking since the USA has a double rating when comparing to other countries out there like Ireland or Norway. What that means is that there is a very high number in the USA which is 6/1000 who will pass in the USA and the rate has not really gone down very much since 2012 and that is a cause for concern. The highest rates of issues are always in the southern states such as: Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. The lowest rates of infant mortality are in states where there are more expensive healthcare options like Iowa and Vermont.
What makes this statistic so high? The real reason for the high number comes from many reasons but one of them is that there is a very high number of births that are below weight and that means that there are many babies that die from not weighing enough. In 2003, the number of children who were underweight accounted for 36% of premature deaths in children. The number is the highest in African American women who have a death rate of 11 in 1,000 births and that also means that there is a very low rate in the world with other countries like Cuba who have around 3 our of every 1,000 babies who pass. In the rest of the world there are very low numbers. In France, the infant mortality rate is 4 out of 1,000 which in Ireland, Israel, and Greece it is around 3 out of 1,000.  Norway and Japan have reached record low numbers at 2 out of 1,000.
All of this data has been collected by the world bank and has been analyzed for many years to try and figure out what the USA is doing so differently. Part of the reason that the mortality rate is so high is the fact that there are many doctors who are not paying attention to guidelines. Doctors may be inducing pregnancies too soon; they may also be in the middle of something that is unplanned and there is not equal healthcare that is available across the USA.
What that also means is that there needs to be more dedication to making sure that there is plenty of time for gestation. In addition, to that there are also many locations that will implant a woman with more than one embryo which also leads to many issues. That happens all the time with IVF and can lead to a situation in which there is going to be a very high rate of death. A death is 4 times as likely when there is more than one baby in the womb at a time. That gets very high when there are twins, triplets, and quintuplets, it can be as many as 26 times higher.
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