While much is known about the epidemiology of maternal mortality, little is known about the political economy of maternal mortality. This talk will cover three areas: First, he will show the strikingly divergent trends in maternal mortality rates and aspects of policy economy between
France and the United States; then he will discuss the challenges confronting the researcher aiming to reliably measure maternal mortality and accurately portray the political economies of France and the United States; and third, he will propose hypotheses that can be tested empirically about the association between the two nations’ political economies and each one’s maternal mortality rates.
Peter Brandon is a social demographer at the University at Albany—State University of New York. His work encompasses population dynamics, family well-being, and economic sociology. He held research and professorial positions at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Massachusetts, Brown University, the Australian National University, and Carleton College. He has been a member of three US National Academy of Sciences panels that concerned immigration issues and the design of national surveys and consulted with other governments and
international agencies evaluating family well-being policies.
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