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maria (guest)
06/28/2008 1:46 PM Quote Reply
Hi Henci,

I stumbled on this report of the WHO:

http://www.who.int/making_pregnancy_safer/publications/neonatal.pdf

I am reading this with great interest and I am wondering what your thoughts about it are. You write somewhere that the US perinatal mortality rate is rather high for a developped country. This report shows otherwise. Would you explain what you meant?

Thanks,
maria.
Henci Goer
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06/29/2008 12:05 AM Quote Reply

Are you sure I wrote that? Mostly, I haven't been able to find a good source of international comparative perinatal or neonatal mortality rates, and I don't usually make statements that I cannot source. I agree that perusing these tables, U.S. rates in the year 2000 were in the ballpark with other developed countries.

-- Henci
maria (guest)
06/29/2008 12:24 AM Quote Reply
This is what you said http://www.lamaze.org/NormalBirthForum/tabid/363/forumid/11/postid/1545/view/topic/Default.aspx

I'm not sure of the context here, but if Amy Tuteur is saying that our perinatal mortality rate is low, that is just not true. They are, in fact, shamefully high for a developed country. They fall woefully short of Healthy People 2010 goals, have been stagnant for years, and are on the rise. In some areas, notably Washington, DC, where there are large populations of low-income black women, our rates rival those of developing countries. Nothing that Tuteur says can be trusted to be sound information. She is well known for selective reporting, taking things out of context, and, um, to put it politely, mistating the facts.

-- Henci

I would love to have more info about this and how it relates to the safety of hospital birth or lack thereof.

Thanks!
maria (guest)
07/02/2008 12:15 AM Quote Reply
Ah, I see you answered this in the two questions thread :-)
Thanks.
maria.
Henci Goer
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07/02/2008 12:24 AM Quote Reply

Thanks. I don't know as it has any relationship to hospital birth. But, in my search to see what I could come up with, I found the CDC report on perinatal mortality in 2003 that Tuteur alluded to. I'll repeat this on the other thread, but there is nothing about care providers.

-- Henci
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