United States: Women’s health in the United States is in serious trouble, with more preventable deaths occurring, especially in Mississippi.
A new report from The Commonwealth Fund ranks all 50 states and Washington, D.C., on their women’s health and reproductive care.
Top and Bottom Rankings
Mississippi is the lowest-ranked state. Massachusetts, Vermont, and Rhode Island are at the top of the list for providing the best care.
“It serves as glaring reminder that where you live matters to your health and health care,” Commonwealth Fund President Joseph Betancourt said in a press call.
Conditions in Magnolia
The Magnolia State came in the last place on the Scorecard’s State ranking and in the part of which to the hight maternal mortality rate with the high rate of cervical and breast cancer deaths and the complete ban on the abortion.
Missippi’s the very last abortion clinic and the Jackson Women’s Health Organization closed in two years before in 2022.
The year 2018 was all about the clinic and one of its doctors challenged a state law banning abortions at 15 weeks and which was somehow incredible though the case ultimately reached the Supreme Court, which used it to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that federally enshrined the right to abortion.
Mississippi and the other states that make up the Mississippi Delta region have the highest maternal mortality rate in the country, with a sizeable percentage of the area’s counties not having a single hospital or birth center with obstetric providers offering obstetric care, according to The Commonwealth Fund.
Limited Access to Preventive Care
The maternal mortality rate in Mississippi was 44.6 deaths per 100,000 live births between 2020 and 2022, more than 1.5 times the national average of 26.3, according to the scorecard.
There are few women in the Mississippi are receiving the regular mammograms with just 73 percent of the 50 to 74 year old women in the state receiving a mammogram in the last two years and about the 4 percent of the points which are lower than the national average according to the analysis.
The particular and the specific states are also suffering from an extreme and a very low grade health care for women and also the shortage of the maternity care providers like doctors and certified nurse midwives with almost 60.4 percent of the providers per 100,000 women who aged 15 to 44 this rate is roughly 18 percent of the points lower than the national average.