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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We should write a song. We’ll call it ‘The Grifter’s Lament’. It’ll go right to the top of the charts.
“But it’s also essential that hospitals train their employees to provide culturally appropriate care, offer translation services and conduct implicit bias association testing.”
Oh yeah...mo money from government...GUARANDAMTEED to fix things...NOT
If it’s systemic racism causing the difference in mortality, then any suggestion about healthier behavior is White Supremacist talk.
Systemic Racism and Climate Change, is there anything it can’t do?
On a similar note, Portland news had a study out of California showing the dangers of gas stoves and that they should be phased out.
Yes, they are similar, from the fundamentally destroy America as you once knew it crowd.
I suppose Climate change will now also be what causes Systemic Abuse in black families.
Systemic racism is a myth, like bigfoot or its cousin the yeti.
Serious question. Could having an abortion in your past cause complications during childbirth?
“translation services”
Why do we need more translation services? Don’t the majority of Blacks in this country speak English?
All lies.
I’m not even going to read this story. The boy has cried “wolf” too many times.
Wont read article since most babies are killed by their own mothers.
Maybe if the baby daddy was around...
Culturally appropriate care.
The other day I saw a video of a bunch of black women claiming that white women lose weight faster when they are on diets while black women remain fat on the same diet. I guess their argument is that dieting is “racist”. I also saw a program on PBS which claimed that computers are also “racist”.
There is a systematic lack of fathers in the home raising their kids.
Did they control for IQ?
Those who develop computers and software do so using linear thinking (white male thinking); therefore computers are both racist and sensitive.
Of course, it is not racist or semester to think that black people or women can’t learn to think in a linear fashion....
Got to speak ebonics, dontcha know???
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