Recent news coverage on the increase in maternal mortality in the U.S. overall has highlighted the spike in deaths among pregnant women in Texas. It went from 19 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2010 to 33 deaths per 100,000 in 2011-2012. Although all the reasons for this increase are not clear, one thing is […]
Author Archives: Joseph Potter and Kari White, Texas Perspectives
Joseph E. Potter is a professor of sociology at The University of Texas at Austin. Kari White is an assistant professor of health care organization and policy in the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Both are associated with the Texas Policy Evaluation Project located in the Population Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin.
