Can Paid Maternal Leave Help Address the Disparities in Maternal Mortality? (NIH)
By Rada Dagher, Ph.D., M.P.H. Posted on June 28, 2020 , National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Maternal mortality rates in the United States have reached an all-time high. While these rates have dropped globally in the last few decades 1 , in the United States, they have more than doubled between 1987 and 2015 2 . The picture is even grimmer for racial and ethnic minority communities, where African American and American Indian/Alaska Native women have the highest...