Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Pregnancy-Associated Death: The Critical Importance of Disaggregation by Cause of Death and Race/Ethnicity.

POLICY sciences; SERIAL publications; MATERNAL health services; MATERNAL mortality; CAUSES of death; RACE; PREGNANCY complications; HEALTH equity; HEALTH care rationing

The article discusses a study by Margerison and colleagues which evaluated changes in five categories of pregnancy-associated death during the first two years of COVID-19 pandemic. Topics include racial/ethnic disparities in each of the incidental or accidental causes, significant increases in different types of pregnancy-associated deaths during the first two years of the pandemic, and a template of evaluations of inequities provided by the researchers outside the perinatal space.