Changes in Pregnancy-Associated Deaths in the US During the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020

Claire E Margerison; Xueshi Wang; Alison Gemmill; Sidra Goldman-Mellor

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.54287

Changes in Pregnancy-Associated Deaths in the US During the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020

JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Feb 1;6(2):e2254287. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.54287.

Authors

Claire E Margerison¹, Xueshi Wang², Alison Gemmill³, Sidra Goldman-Mellor⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michigan State University, East Lansing.
² Department of Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing.
³ Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁴ Department of Public Health, University of California, Merced.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study assesses changes in pregnancy-associated mortality from drug overdose, homicide, suicide, and other causes in the US from 2018 through 2020.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Female
Homicide
Humans
Pandemics
Pregnancy
Suicide*

Grants and funding

R01 HD102319/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States