How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.
The US has been portrayed as in the grip of a maternal mortality crisis. We investigate how a gradual change in the way the data was gathered lies at the heart of the problem
The US has been portrayed as in the grip of a maternal mortality crisis. In contrast to most other developed nations, the rate of maternal deaths in the US has been going up since the early 2000s.
But why? With the help of Saloni Dattani, a researcher at Our World in Data, Tim Harford explores how a gradual change in the way the data was gathered lies at the heart of the problem.
Presenter: Tim Harford
Producer: Debbie Richford
Production Co-ordinator: Brenda Brown
Series Producer: Tom Colls
Sound Mix: Emma Harth
Editor: Richard Vadon
Last on
Broadcasts
- Sat 29 Jun 202404:50GMTBBC World Service except East and Southern Africa, Europe and the Middle East & West and Central Africa
- Sat 29 Jun 202410:50GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa & Europe and the Middle East only
- Sat 29 Jun 202415:50GMTBBC World Service News Internet
- Sun 30 Jun 202408:50GMTBBC World Service West and Central Africa
- Sun 30 Jun 202410:50GMTBBC World Service except East and Southern Africa, Europe and the Middle East & West and Central Africa
- Sun 30 Jun 202422:50GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
- Sun 30 Jun 202423:50GMTBBC World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa
Download this programme
Subscribe to this programme or download individual episodes.
