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According to the non -profit march about the health of the baby and maternal health, the indicator of premature birth in the United States rises.
On Tuesday, the organization released its The annual “habitat of performance” in maternal and baby healthwhich includes a recently updated calculation system. In an in -depth look at premature birth, a new report showed that last year the birth rate in the United States grew to 10.5%, which is 4% from 2020, and the worst national indicator since March of Certes began to track these data in 2007, based on its new calculation system.
“In fact, this is a 15-year-old high birth rate in this country,” said Dr. Zsakeba Henderson, senior vice president and temporary director for medical and medical healthcare in March.
Birth rate in the USA Peak in 2006 by 12.8%According to data from National Health Statistics CenterField
Since then, some reports on cents marches have found us premature birth rate indicators much higher than 10.5%, but these indicators were based on the calculations that have been updated since then, according to March of Dimes.
“Too many children are born too early: 1 out of 10. If you had 10 children in front of you, and one of them has to face complications that are accompanied by prematurely, this is unacceptable, and we need better,” Henderson said, adding that these 1 out of 10 will be more likely black, American Indians or Alaska native.
The March of Dimes data in the new report show that babies born of mothers of black and indigenous Americans are 62% more often than those who were born from white women.
States with the highest and lowest indicators
The new report “Marsh of Certs” also emphasized the differences in the state in terms of premature throughout the country.
The report evaluates premature birth rate, less or equal to 7.7% as a, and to premature birth rate exceeding or equal to 11.5% as F.
The national birth rate of 10.5% is estimated as D+.
No state has reached speed, and only one has a premature birth rate at the state level, which will be evaluated as A-: Vermont, which has the lowest birth rate in the United States by 8%.
Meanwhile, nine states and one territory have prematurely born indicators that received an estimate of F: Georgia and Oklahom with 11.9%; Arkansas, Kentukki and Puerto -CRICO with 12%; South Carolina with 12.1%; Western Virginia with 12.8%; Alabama with 13.1%; Louisiana with 13.5%; and mississippi with the highest birth rate of all states at the level of 15%.
“The areas in which the worst grades have are the same areas that we observed sequentially for a long time, and we have to do what we need to do to improve our health and make our country the best place for childbirth and be born,” Henderson said. “Unfortunately, we do not have a policy to protect the most vulnerable in our country, and, without protecting our mothers and children, we cannot ensure the health of everyone else.”
According to Henderson, in order to solve these state differences in premature birth and help improve the national birth rate as a whole, the property march acts for a certain policy, including that including that including Act of black mother's health “Momnibus” 2021A wide two -party account of accounts to provide pre -tetal support to black mothers, but most of the accounts in the package still make their way through the congress.
The march of cents also calls for more states to adopt legislation Expansion of access to muzzles and midwivesamong other services for the protection of the mother’s health, and reduce the prevalence Deserts for pregnant women throughout the country.
There are many potential factors contributing to the growth of premature birth rate in the country, and Henderson said that the Covid-19 pandemic remains one of the largest.
“We cannot forget about the influence of Covid-19 pandemia and admit that there is probably a huge contribution to this, knowing that the Covid-19 infection increases the risk of premature birth,” she said. “But we also know that this pandemic has highlighted many other questions, knowing that the problems related to structural racism and barriers to adequate prenatal assistance related to access were also put forward during this pandemic.”
She added that many mothers in the United States begin pregnancy at a later age, and there was an increase in mothers with chronic health states, which are subjected to higher risk of childbirth early from the complications of pregnancy.
Henderson also said that premature birth is one of the main causes of death from babies and disproportionately amaze children born of colored women.
“The United States is one of the worst places to give birth and be born in industrialized countries, unfortunately. When we look at the maternal death and death of babies, we are in the lower part of countries among countries with similar profiles in terms of gross domestic product, ”said Henderson. “It is from our disproportionate number of premature births – especially for the population, which are disproportionately influenced, such as black families and American Indians and indigenous families Alaska – that our bets are much higher than in other countries.”
All over the world, about 10% of births are premature throughout the world – similar to the American birth rate in the United States.
According to the World Health Organization, which called the incompetent healthcare organization, about 15 million children are born prematurely every year, which is more than 1 out of 10 out of all genera around the world, which has called the incompetent “urgent problem of public health” and the “main cause of children under 5 years of age”.
Separately from the report on the march of the cents, Who has released new guidelines On Tuesday, how countries can improve the results of survival and health of children born too early, 37 weeks of pregnancy or less, or too small, at 5.5 pounds or less.
These recommendations on the recommendations advise that contact with skin to skin, also known as a kangaroo for a mother, be provided to premature babies immediately after birth, without any initial time spent in the incubator.
“Previously, we recommended taking care of the mother of Kangaroo to be only for children who were completely stable,” said Dr. Karen Edmond, a pediatrician, a health worker in the WHO, who was leading in the new leadership.
“But now we know that if we put children in contact with the skin to the skin, unless they really get sick critically, this will significantly increase their chances of survival,” she said. “So, something new, is that we now know that we should rend out the care of the mother of the kangaroo immediately after birth, and not wait until the child is stable.”
Edmond added that immediate care for his mother can help babies better adjust their body temperature and help protect against infections, and she said that these guidelines are intended for medical suppliers, as well as for families.
The new leading principles of WHO also recommend that emotional, financial support and support at the workplace be provided for families of children born too early or with a low birth weight.
“Underground children can survive, flourish and change the world, but each child should be given such a chance,” said the general director, which General Director Tedros Adkhan Grabyesus said in a press release.
“These guidelines show that improving the results for these tiny children is not always the provision of the most high-tech decisions,” he said, “rather to ensure access to basic healthcare, which is concentrated on the needs of families.”
