Post by miles on Nov 1, 2023 10:35:12 GMT -6
TEXAS TRIBUNE — Texas will soon have four new maternal health research centers that will pilot innovative solutions to the state’s maternal mortality and morbidity crisis.
The U.S. Health and Human Services Department is funding 16 centers nationwide. Texas’ four new centers will be at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, The University of Texas at Arlington, Texas Southern University and Texas A&M University.
Texas persistently struggles with maternal mortality and morbidity, and the rates are only expected to increase under its near-total abortion ban. In 2013, when Texas first started tracking deaths and severe illness or injury from pregnancy and childbirth, Black women were twice as likely as white women and four times as likely as Hispanic women to die from pregnancy-related causes.
A decade later, despite more research, tracking and political attention on the issue, these disparities persist.
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The U.S. Health and Human Services Department is funding 16 centers nationwide. Texas’ four new centers will be at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, The University of Texas at Arlington, Texas Southern University and Texas A&M University.
Texas persistently struggles with maternal mortality and morbidity, and the rates are only expected to increase under its near-total abortion ban. In 2013, when Texas first started tracking deaths and severe illness or injury from pregnancy and childbirth, Black women were twice as likely as white women and four times as likely as Hispanic women to die from pregnancy-related causes.
A decade later, despite more research, tracking and political attention on the issue, these disparities persist.
READ FULL ARTICLE >>> www.valleycentral.com/news/state-news/utrgv-to-get-maternal-health-research-center-amid-mortality-crisis-for-moms/
