Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) co-published a paper titled, "Evaluation of All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality by Race and Ethnicity Among Pregnant and Recently Pregnant Women in the US, 2019 to 2020" in the journal JAMA Network Open.
Research has suggested trends of worsening maternal health associated with depression, substance use, and severe maternal morbidity in the U.S. over the past decade. All-cause and drug/alcohol poisoning mortality rates for pregnant and recently pregnant women also increased from 2015-2019. In this study, researchers examined all-cause and cause-specific mortality rates among pregnant and recently pregnant women from 2019 to 2020 and compared mortality rates by race and ethnicity.
