Disparities in use were more pronounced among women, particularly for ambulatory and dental visits (eTable 2 in the Supplement). In the post-ACA period (2014-2019), large racial disparities in ambulatory care visits, dental visits, and total expenditures persisted before (eTable 1 in the ...
The minority of black women who are diagnosed with endometriosis are diagnosed on averagetwo and a half years laterthanwhite women. Black women are also less likely toreceive endometriosis surgery—and if they do, are more likely to experience surgical complications afterwards. The under-diagnosis o...
In the case of adultification, this is manifested in treating black girls as if they were black women, thereby denying them child-like innocence and special protections usually given to children. Importantly, however, the adultification of black girls is different to Fricker’s central case of ...
The disparities in maternal healthcare for Black mothers across the U.S. are striking. Black women arethree times more likely to diefrom pregnancy-related causes than white women. They also face higher rates of complications like hypertension, preeclampsia, and hemorrhage, and are more likely to ...
Black American women suffer disproportionate morbidity and mortality, as compared with other populations in the United States. Conventional models of health disparities fail to account for these differences. To cultivate greater community engagement in disparities research, we adapted traditional focus group...
Background: Black women living with HIV account for a higher proportion of new HIV diagnoses than other groups. These women experience restricted access to reproductive services and inadequate support from healthcare providers because their position in society is based on their ...
include the forma- tion of the Brixton Black Women's Group (BBWG) in 1973 (Lewis and Hemmings 2019) which campaigned and challenged structural inequal- ities concerning the lives of Black women, ranging from reproductive rights and labour experiences, to the provision of healthcare and educa- ...
GRMs are everyday insults that black women experience due to being both black and female (e.g., comments about their body). Commonly assessed barriers to HIV-related care (e.g., transportation, finance, community stigma) do not include personal experiences of race- and HIV-related ...
more likely to die from heart disease and are 30 percent more likely than white women to die from breast cancer once diagnosed. They are more affected by lung and colon cancers, and experience higher rates of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, kidney disease, strokes and obesity...
to the provision of healthcare and education. The slightly later founding of the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD) in 1978 also reflects how Black women in Britain have worked to tackle systemic interconnected oppression and strive for societal change. In the words of ...