The United States experiences the highest rates of maternal mortality and illness among developed nations, disproportionately impacting Black women and birthing people. Missouri is no exception, with racial disparities in healthcare posing an active threat to Black women’s health...
Health care inequity has continued from slavery and into the 20th century primarily due of racial segregation, poverty, access, poor quality of care, eugenics and the assault of forced sterilizations. Racial disparity in maternal and infant mortality is an outcome rooted in racial injustice, social...
While most of this story remains a mystery, one thing we know is for sure: maternal mortality affects black mothers four times more than their white counterparts. This is the biggest racial disparity in all of health. As NPR put it so starkly,“A black woman is 22 percent more likely to...
Harris' attention to health issues particularly important to Black women is helping to draw their support, said Kimberly Peeler-Allen, a co-founder of Higher Heights. In 2021, the vice president called for a more robust government response to the nation's high maternal mortality rates. The Cent...
Maternal Mortality Among American Indian/Alaska Native Women: A Scoping Review Jennifer L. Heck, Emily J. Jones, Diane Bohn, Shondra McCage, Judy Goforth Parker, Mahate Parker, Stephanie L. Pierce, and Jacquelyn Campbell Vol. 30, No. 2February 2021 ...
national crisis,” Michael Dowling, president and CEO of Northwell Health said in a press release. “We must do better and we can do better. Today, we are pledging to mobilize our entire health system to rectify this shameful health disparity so that Black women and their ...
Related storyThe 2023 Momnibus Bill: What's In It & How it Could Help End the Black Maternal Healthcare Crisis What is behind the disparity in care? In January, whenSerena Williamsmade headlines discussing her post-birth encounter with pulmonary embolism, we were given a public face to Black...
Eroleen Watkins and her 3-month-old baby Miles, talk to a doula about postpartum health. They're together in Germantown through a maternal resource platform called CocoLife. "The rates of disparity the for mortality and morbidity for our Black moms and babies are astronomical," the creator ...
Maternal mortality is a death related to pregnancy or childbirth. In the United States, maternal mortality rates have been increasing since the beginning of the 21st century and there is a significant racial disparity with Black women being at greater risk. Despite national rates increasing, ...
Using the framework of obstetric racism, I suggest that, in addition to the crisis of adverse maternal health outcomes, such as premature birth, low-birthweight infants and maternal death, Black women also face the crisis of racism in their medical encounters as they attempt to conceive through...