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Health Disparities

"Black infants die before one year of life at more than twice the rate of white infants...There are also profound disparities in other birth outcomes. " (JMWH 2016) See also Figure 2


Pregnant and postpartum persons of black or African American descent are more than twice as likely to die as a result of childbirth than whites 26.5 vs. 10.0 per 100,000 (HP 2020).  In New York City, maternal mortality for blacks is 12 times higher than for whites (Boyd et al., 2015)

Indigenous/American Indian/Alaska Native infants birthed in the US are nearly two times more likely to die in their first year of life than the US infants with the best outcomes.
(ASOTHO, 2012)

"Reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care should be a priority for all obstetrician–gynecologists and other women’s health care providers." Recommendations for practitioners (See ACOG Number: 649, 2015).

A Priority: Increasing Racial/Ethnic Diversity in Nursing to Reduce Health Disparities and Achieve Health Equity (Phillips & Malone, 2014)

A Resource List to Educate Yourself on Why Black Women and Babies are Dying in the USA

Social Justice
Preventing Trauma
Disparities

This site was designed as part of a Masters Project in Maternal Child Health Systems at
Bastyr University by Kristin Effland, LM, CPM
Spring 2017

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Social Justice

 

Preventing Trauma
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Preventing Microaggressions

“There must be purposeful action by every individual in the profession, as well as the collective voice of midwifery, to identify barriers to inclusiveness and to foster a culture of diversity through respect, recruitment, and mentoring.” Kennedy et al, 2006, p. 85

SOURCE: UCLA’s office of Diversity & Faculty Development. (2014). Diversity in the Classroom. Retrieved from https://equity.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/DiversityintheClassroom2014Web.pdf   

Figure 2

SOURCE: Matthews TJ, MacDorman MF. Infant Mortality Statistics from the 2010 Period Linked Birth/Infant Death Data Set, National Vital Statistics Reports 62(8); Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics, 2013 IN March of Dimes. (2015, Feb 27). Fact Sheet: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Birth Outcomes. Retrieved from http://www.marchofdimes.org/materials/March-of-Dimes-Racial-and-Ethnic-Disparities_feb-27-2015.pdf 

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