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. Amultiyear reportfound that Black women in Missouri were three times more likely to die within a year...
Irth allows Black and brown patients to search for and create reviews of their OB/GYN, birthing hospitals, postpartum care and pediatricians up to an infant's first year.
Furthermore, the negative impacts of healthcare access associated with being a racialized and linguistic minority population in Quebec (e.g., the English-speaking Black population) were shown to be mediated by experiences of discrimination and dissatisfaction with the healthcare system....
In 2017, the Center for American Progress published a nationally representative survey of LGBTQ+ people. The survey found that nearly one in 10 LGBTQ+ individuals reported that a healthcare professional refused to see them in the prior year. Those individuals attributed the discrimination to their ...
Factors associated with access, utilization, and living experiences of labor and delivery care among Black women in the US: a scoping review. Curr Obstet Gynecol Rep. 2024;13(4):246–67. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13669-024-00402-0. Article Google Scholar Zhuang J, Goldbort J, Bogdan-...
Black Maternal Health Week shines a light on racial disparities in OBGYN care When it comes to healthcare, the historical data highlighting racial disparities and inequities is undeniable. Dr. Dionne Dickerson says there are a multitude of reasons Black mothers are dying at such a dispropo...
Physical health. LGBTQ+ people are at greater risk for certain conditions, diseases, and infections: Gay and bisexual men are more likely to have HIV/AIDS.3 Transgender Women, Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino men have the highest risk for HIV infection.4 Older LGBTQ+ adults are more...
摘要: This chapter situates healthcare as a concern for the field of adult education through a critique of disparities in access to healthcare, quality of care received, and caregiver services for racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities.关键词: Access to Health Care Minority Groups Adult Education...
Discontinuities in access to and use of care were smaller among White beneficiaries vs Black and Hispanic beneficiaries (Table 2). Thus, loss of Medicaid eligibility was associated with widened racial and ethnic health care disparities. For example, exceeding the threshold was associated with greater...
Relative to women of other races, Black women were less likely to receive some therapies but also more likely to receive others. There was no heterogeneity observed regarding statin adherence. Specifically, Black women with (1) premature ASCVD were more likely to receive any statins (OR, 1.15;...