Ruth Alexander
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4,250 appearances
120 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2011
last heard Aug 2018
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I mean, it sounds like it must mean women dying in childbirth.
But actually, there's a wider focus than that.
It encompasses women who die during pregnancy or within six weeks afterwards.
Now, in the UK, the pregnancy is a direct cause of death in a third of cases.
In two-thirds of cases, so the vast majority, the death was caused by unrelated medical or mental health problems that got worse during the pregnancy.
And in most of all those cases in the UK, the women were already in ill health when they became pregnant.
And the UK, it has to be said, has been making real progress on reducing the numbers who die as a direct result of their pregnancy.
So we really are, we're doing okay, in fact, more than okay.
And in fact, when you look at the statistics, the real story there, it isn't about the differences I've just been talking about.
It's about countries like those in sub-Saharan Africa, where maternal mortality there can be 10 to 100 times higher than it is here in the UK.
So employment's up, as we know.
There are more than 31 million adults in employment now.
That gives us a rate of 73.4%, the highest employment rate since comparable records began in the 70s, 1971.
One of the big trends is rising self-employment, and the unemployment rate is down to 5.6%.
That's the lowest it's been since July 2008, and much lower than the Eurozone average, and better than the US.
He does, yes.
The Conservative campaign message is that two million jobs have been created since 2010, about a thousand jobs a day, as they also like to say, and it's about right.
But it's politically difficult for David Cameron that about half of these jobs have gone to people who weren't born in the UK, although a good chunk of these people are UK nationals.
So about a third of Cameron's new jobs have gone to non-UK nationals.
Taking a longer term view, it's interesting, the number of non-UK nationals working in the UK has tripled since 1997 when new Labour came into office.
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