Millennial Women health decline

Today’s tidbit is an interesting and startling report about millennial women facing bigger health threats with adverse health outcomes and mortality rates. These increased risks to their health are proving to be fatal too often.
The maternal mortality rate is surging for young Millennial women ages 25 to 34, up from 19.2 deaths per 100,000 to 30.4 deaths per every 100,000 live births in 2019-2021. Pregnant and recently pregnant women are more at risk for both homicide and suicide in addition to maternal mortality. Self harm accounts for 20% of all deaths among pregnant and recently pregnant women.
Fourteen parameters were measured, however none were nutritionally oriented, my passionate interest. “We can’t point to any one factor that causes this gap between women’s efforts and their health and safety outcomes, but signs point to a combination of social, structural, and policy driven influences…”
This is a very abbreviated summary of this important documentation by the Population Reference Bureau, Population Bulletin vol. 77, NO. 1.2023. Losing more Ground, by Srygley, et al.
I am working in the field of Prenatal Nutrition and the first 1000 days of baby’s growth with the top rated program in the country. I am intentionally letting you know because I would love to work with people to assist them in having optimum outcomes to help avoid the adverse situations outlined in this report. There are other reports related to this, as well. If you are open to learning more about our Prenatal/Postnatal program I will be honored to share it with you. Bruce