North American Community Hub Statistics
Here is a fact that should stop you cold. The infant mortality rate in the United States is 5.1 deaths per 1,000 live births, ranking 54th among the 195 countries and territories measured, and significantly higher than dozens of other developed countries, including Sweden at 2.3, Japan at 1.9, and Australia at 2.9, according to … Read more
A patient in Texas cannot legally get a routine abortion. Just across the border, New Mexico has no general legal cutoff based on how many weeks pregnant someone is. For someone in El Paso, abortion care may be available across the state line. Someone in Houston could face a drive of several hundred miles to … Read more
Birth injury statistics are easy to misuse because the term covers very different medical problems. A swollen scalp that clears on its own can appear in the same dataset as a fractured clavicle, nerve damage or serious bleeding beneath the scalp. That is why we are not going to tell you that one fixed number … Read more
RSV has been a real problem for babies around the world for a while now. A new study shows that the number of babies dying from this virus has gone up and down over the past 10 years, but it’s still a major issue – especially in poorer countries where healthcare is harder to come … Read more