Tweet Chat Wrap: The Global State of Motherhood
The U.S. fell to 31st place out of 178 countries on Save the Children's State of Motherhood annual rankings. Credit: Getty.
Just in time for Mother's Day comes the release of Save the Children's "State of the World's Mothers" report, which outlines the best and worst places to be a mom and a child across the globe.
This year, the U.S. tumbled to 31st place thanks to an increased risk of maternal and little improvement in the childhood death rate.
What are we doing for mothers and children in the U.S.? What about the rest of the world? Those were questions in this week's ABC News health tweet chat, moderated by ABC News's chief health and medical editor Dr. Richard Besser.
You can read the entire chat transcript here, or catch the highlights below.
T1: Chances a mother & her baby will survive, education, income & political representation of women help determine our rankings. #abcDrBchat
— Save the Children (@SavetheChildren) May 6, 2014
T2: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Netherlands - Best 5 countries! #abcDrBchat
— Devika Dixit (@DevikaDixitMD) May 6, 2014
@abcDrBchat T4: Worst 5 places to be a mom are: Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Democratic Republic of the Congo & Somalia. #abcDrBchat #SOWM
— Save the Children (@SavetheChildren) May 6, 2014
T5: 40 % of the world's children live in countries with conflict. #SOWM #BringBackOurGirls #abcDRBchat
— Julia Wiklander (@jwklndr) May 6, 2014
T6: U.S. is 1 of 8 countries w/ increased maternal mortality since 2003. #abcDrBchat
— Saving Mothers (@savingmothers) May 6, 2014
T6 RT @writefreedom09 @BharatKumarMD: Perhaps we're not falling so much as everyone else is rising … and we're not keeping up #abcDrBchat
— Devika Dixit (@DevikaDixitMD) May 6, 2014
T9: RT @OmeMD As a world leader (USA), it's our social responsibility to care for our planet's most vulnerable. #abcdrbchat
— Nipunie Rajapakse (@NipunieMD) May 6, 2014
RT!-> @SavetheChildren Find more info on the State of the World's Mothers & get involved here: http://t.co/fbkVD80S8J. - #abcDrBchat #SOWM
— Hope Jackson (@htjacks) May 6, 2014