Citation

Wallace ME, Crear-Perry J, Mehta P, Theall KP. JAMA Pediatr. 2020; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Mary Amelia Douglas-Whited Women's Community Health Education Center, Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, American Medical Association)

DOI

10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.5853

PMID

32011644

Abstract

Maternal mortality in the United States is on the rise,1 mobilizing programmatic and policy responses at local, state, and federal levels. A growing number of jurisdictions identify homicide as a leading cause of death during pregnancy and the postpartum period, yet relative to the attention paid to obstetric causes of death, rigorous examination of mortality from nonobstetric causes during pregnancy and the postpartum period is rare, particularly in comparison with similar investigations of women who were not pregnant.

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