Posted on 10/23/2022 7:25:08 AM PDT by devane617
Black women have a 53% increased risk of dying in the hospital during childbirth, no matter their income level, type of insurance or other social determinants of health, suggesting systemic racism seriously impacts maternal health, according to an 11-year analysis of more than 9 million deliveries in U.S. hospitals being presented at the Anesthesiology 2022 annual meeting.
"This study is the most up-to-date and extensive study—factoring in various states, insurance types, hospital types and income levels—to determine that the much higher maternal mortality rate among Black women often cannot be attributed to differences in health, income or access to care alone," said Robert White, M.D., M.S., lead author of the study and assistant professor of anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York. "Clearly there's a need for legislation to improve access to health care throughout pregnancy and improve funding among safety-net hospitals. But it's also essential that hospitals train their employees to provide culturally appropriate care, offer translation services and conduct implicit bias association testing."
Causes of maternal death include the development of blood clots, heart failure, postpartum hemorrhage (excessive blood loss) and pre-eclampsia (extremely high blood pressure). The U.S. maternal mortality rate of 17.3 deaths per 100,000 births is higher than any other developed nation, with a huge disparity gap between Black and white mothers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines maternal mortality as death during pregnancy, delivery or within one year of the end of the pregnancy. This study focused on maternal death during childbirth in a hospital.
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So you're saying Indians think like white people?
A quick wander around the web finds that obstetric hemorrhage (OBH) occurs mostly as post-partum hemorrhage (PPH), and PPH is on the rise across developed countries. Two studies I found showing increased rates are from Norway and New Zealand which, last I checked, have fewer blacks between them than the average NFL squad.
What is increasingly seen as a determining factor is obesity. Do the math on that and you come up with not equal to racism.
Obviously a few trillion $$$ in welfare spending is needed to combat the problem.
The first question that come to mind is ‘what is the general health of the individual just prior to entering the hospital” ie. obesity, existing untreated conditions, genetic predispositions, etc etc.
But I guess we can’t let pivotal facts get in the way of a
heinous narrative.
There is so much racist crap in this story.
“There is so much racist crap in this story.”
I didn’t know where to start it was so awful.
They are fatter, eat worse diets and get less exercise than white women.
It appears that Climate Change and Systemic Racism, neither of which can be changed, is Killing black women. The only way to stop this travesty seems to be sending them all back to the African nations they descend from.
Hasn't Africa been punished enough?
I don’t think the continent’s economy could take the load.
Indeed racism is the only product they have to pimp it’s a long money trail.
Honesty to some is slavery media lifts hand.
This is an example of the logical fallacy of Causal Reductionism.
>linear thinking (white male thinking)
Not one of these real racists and real communists will dare come out and say what the alternative logic is like and how that would make things better.
That’s because whenever they throw down logic, they replace it with the sort of magic thinking that produces only chaos and dissolution, and in the end boils down to “think and do X because the Big Guy with the weapon said to.”
I don’t even know where to start on this story.
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How about starting with the fact that black women in the hood are their own worst enemies, shunning the education needed to manage their health care and pursuing unhealthy habits, such as excessive mask wearing.
Another little assistant professor publishing a poorly thought out but highly sensationalistic piece. The journals love this crap.
Another little assistant professor publishing a poorly thought out but highly sensationalistic piece. The journals love this crap.
Lemme guess...
All conditions associated with morbid obesity.
And excessive weight!
Remember America’s 11th Commandment: Its never, ever black people’s fault.
By some accounts half of black babies in the US were murdered before they had a chance to see light or receive even the slightest show of affection to them from their “mothers”.
So cry me a river.
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