Racial, Age, and Regional Disparities in Maternal Mortality in the USA, 1999-2020.

Background: The health and well-being of mothers are essential for a thriving and prosperous society, yet maternal mortality remains a pressing public health problem in the USA. We aimed to examine the US trends in maternal mortality from 1999 to 2020 based on age, race/ethnicity, and census region.

Methods: Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research were used to identify maternal mortality cases.

Investigating the Spatial Relationship between Social Vulnerability and Healthcare Facility Distribution in Nassau County, New York.

Health is a fundamental human right, yet healthcare facilities are not distributed equitably across all communities. This study aims to investigate the distribution of healthcare facilities in Nassau County, New York, and examine whether the distribution is equitable across different social vulnerability levels. An optimized hotspot analysis was conducted on a dataset of 1695 healthcare facilities-dental, dialysis, ophthalmic, and urgent care-in Nassau County, and social vulnerability was measured using the FPIS codes.

Housing influences among sleep-related infant injury deaths in the USA.

This article examines the role of housing conditions in sleep-related infant injury death, a leading cause of infant mortality in the USA. The use of an unsafe sleep surface is a major risk factor for sleep-related infant injury. This exploratory study examined contextual circumstances, specifically those related to the physical environment, which may contribute to caregivers' decisions to place an infant on an unsafe sleep surface.

Maternal nativity and sleep-related infant injury deaths in New York City.

Background: Half of all births in New York City are to women born outside of the United States whose infant care practices may differ from official recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics. These infants have an overall lower infant mortality rate than those of their US-born counterparts.

Aims: The aims of this study were to examine sleep-related infant injury death, a leading cause of infant mortality, and its risk factors among infants of US-born and foreign-born women in a large, diverse urban area.

Exploring caregiver behavior and knowledge about unsafe sleep surfaces in infant injury death cases.

Objectives: In the United States, infant deaths due to sleep-related injuries have quadrupled over the past two decades. One of the major risk factors is the placement of an infant to sleep on a surface other than a crib or bassinet. This study examines contextual circumstances and knowledge and behaviors that may contribute to the placement of infants on an unsafe sleep surface in infant injury death cases.

Perception and attitudes: breastfeeding in public in New York City.

Background: In the United States, 76.9% of women initiate breastfeeding but only 36.0% breastfeed exclusively for 3 months.