What Do We Really Know About the Maternal-Mortality Crisis?

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  In the decades from 1999 to 2019,

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  researchers found that maternal mortality deaths had more than doubled.

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  This finding capped years of concerns

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  that the US was steadily becoming a deadlier place for pregnant women.

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  These data filtered their way through academic journals

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  and papers and national statistics to newspapers and magazines.

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  I remember reading these stories myself and as someone who wanted kids,

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  becoming more and more afraid and confused what was going on?

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  How could things be getting so much worse every year when medical progress should be moving us forward?

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  And then I started hearing that there were some concerns with the maternal mortality statistics,

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  that the story might be more complicated than was commonly understood.

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  This is good on paper.

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  A policy show that questions what we really know about popular narratives I'm your host,

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  Jerusalem Demsis, and I'm a staff writer here at the Atlantic.

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  Today's guest is Saloni Datani.

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  She's a researcher at Our World in Data who has studied death certificates

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  and causes of death data broadly

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  and kept getting questions about why the US maternal mortality data looked so bad.

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  Her research builds on the work of other skeptical scientists and found

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  that the seeming rise in maternal mortality is actually the result of measurement changes.

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