Published on : 07/06/2022 – 09:00
Since 2012, children who die before reaching the age of one year are more and more numerous in France. A study published at the end of March 2022 in the scientific journal “The Lancet” reveals the worrying increase in infant mortality there. If the causes have not yet been determined, avenues are being explored by researchers, including congenital malformations or birth weight.
We will also discuss the dramatic increase in the maternal mortality rate in the United States, figures that are particularly worrying within the Afro-Caribbean community.
Did the Covid pandemic and the associated health crisis have an impact on these figures? Is socio-economic origin a risk factor?
At the end of the program, we take stock of the French midwives who are mobilizing in the face of the labor shortage in maternity wards. We talk about it with Camille Dumortier, midwife and president of theNational Trade Union Organization of Midwives – ONSSF.